Captopus Li and Cai 2021 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Throscidae

Full reference: Y. D. Li and C. Y. Cai. 2021. Taxonomic names, in New genera and species of the family Throscidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Insects 12(63)

Parent taxon: Throscidae according to Y. D. Li and C. Y. Cai 2021

Sister taxa: Archaeolus, Aulonothroscus, Electrothroscus, Jaira, Megacephalites, Pactopus, Palaeothroscini, Potergosoma, Potergus, Pseudopactopus, Pseudothroscus, Rhomboaspis, Throscinae, Trixagosoma, Trixagus, Tyrannothroscus

Subtaxa: Captopus depressiceps

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Type: Captopus depressiceps

Ecology:

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

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