Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Burmomiles bilineatimaculatus

Full reference: Y. X. Yang, M. Geiser, and H. Y. Liu. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Review of the genus Burmomiles Fanti, Damgaard & Ellenberger from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Cantharidae). Cretaceous Research 128(104961)

Belongs to Elektrokleinia according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Fanti and Müller 2022 and Yang et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Elektrokleinia oblongoculus, Elektrokleinia panna, Elektrokleinia picta, Elektrokleinia steffenseni, Elektrokleinia thiloi, Elektrokleinia zahradniki

Type specimen: MHBU BU-COL-CAN0001, 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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