Cretoptomaphagus microsoma Bao and Antunes-Carvalho 2020 (round fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Leiodidae

Full reference: T. Bao and C. Antunes-Carvalho. 2020. Two new polyphagan beetles (Tenebrionidae, Leiodidae) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 116(104599)

Belongs to Cretoptomaphagus according to T. Bao and C. Antunes-Carvalho 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP173318, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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