Burmagrilus cretacus Jiang et al. 2021 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: R. X. Jiang, H. T. Song, and S. Wang. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Burmagrilus cretacus gen. et sp. nov., the first Buprestidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 125(104866)

Belongs to Burmagrilus according to R. X. Jiang et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QUST-INSECT-0015, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (QUST collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (QUST collection)

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