Brevipterus acutiapicis Yang et al. 2022 (soldier beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: Y. X. Yang, H. Y. Liu, and W. Zhao. 2022. Taxonomic names, in Morphology and geometric morphometrics unveil a new genus of Cantharidae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, with a preliminary investigation on the phylogenetic position. Invertebrate Systematics 36:608-621

Belongs to Brevipterus according to Y. X. Yang et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Brevipterus megacephalus, Brevipterus obtusiapicis, Brevipterus strungei

Type specimen: MHBU BU-COL-CAN0007, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Hebei University MHBU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Hebei University MHBU collection)

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