Cretostenotarsus striatus Tomaszewska et al. 2022 (handsome fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae

Full reference: W. Tomaszewska, K. Szawaryn, and E. Arriaga-Varela. 2022. First member of 'higher Endomychidae' (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar and new insights into the time of origin of the handsome fungus beetles. Insects 13(690)

Belongs to Cretostenotarsus according to W. Tomaszewska et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MAIG 5999, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll)

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