Prototrichalus meiyingae Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020 (false fire-colored beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ischaliidae

Full reference: F. Molina-Olmedo, V. S. Ferreira, M. A. Branham and M. A. Ivie. 2020. The description of Prototrichalus gen. nov. and three new species from Burmese amber supports a mid-Cretaceous origin of the Metriorrhynchini (Coleoptera, Lycidae). Cretaceous Research 111(104452)

Belongs to Prototrichalus according to L. Bocak et al. 2022

See also Kazantsev 2020 and Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Prototrichalus jingpo, Prototrichalus milleri, Prototrichalus sepronai

Type specimen: MTEC 057004, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MTEC collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.