Cretopseudopsis maweii Liu et al. 2020 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: Y. C. Liu, E. Tihelka, L. Tian, D. Y. Huang, and C. Y. Cai. 2020. First fossil pseudopsine rove beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pseudopsinae). Zootaxa 4885:76-82

Belongs to Cretopseudopsis according to Y. C. Liu et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP173462, 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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