Mysteriomorphus pelevini Alekseev and Ellenberger 2019 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mysteriomorphidae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and S. Ellenberger. 2019. A new beetle family, Mysteriomorphidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateriformia incertae sedis), from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Palaeoentomology 2:482-490

Belongs to Mysteriomorphus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2024

See also Peris et al. 2020

Sister taxon: Mysteriomorphus longelytrum

Type specimen: GPIH 4947, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH 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

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