†Afristenus orapensis Mnguni et al. 2022 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: S. Mnguni, I. J. McKay, and S. Badenhorst. 2022. Afristenus orapensis: A new genus and species of Steninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with "harpoon-like" mouthparts from the Upper Cretaceous lacustrine deposits at Orapa Diamond Mine, Botswana. Cretaceous Research 142(105398)
Belongs to Afristenus according to S. Mnguni et al. 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: ESI BP/2/25912, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)
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