Scydmaenus linqibini Yin and Zhou 2020 (antlike stone beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: Z. W. Yin and D. Y. Zhou. 2020. Scydmaenus linqibini sp. nov., a new fossil Scydmaenini in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Palaeoentomology 3:36-40

Belongs to Scydmaenus according to Z. W. Yin and D. Y. Zhou 2020

Sister taxa: Scydmaenus heeri, Scydmaenus minor

Type specimen: SNUC-Paleo-0084, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Shanghai Normal University SNUC collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Shanghai Normal University SNUC collection)

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