†Mysteriomorphus pelevini Alekseev and Ellenberger 2019 (beetle)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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