Palaeopycnus fushengii Lu et al. 2022 (scavenger scarab beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hybosoridae

Full reference: Y. Y. Lu, A. Ballerio, and M. Bai. 2022. Taxonomic names, in The evolution of conglobation in Ceratocanthinae. Communications Biology 5(777)

Belongs to Palaeopycnus according to Y. Y. Lu et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Palaeopycnus circus

Type specimen: BXAM BA-COL-001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (BXAM Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (BXAM Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum collection)

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