Mesonosa scandens Tihelka et al. 2021 (wounded tree beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nosodendridae

Full reference: E. Tihelka, Y. D. Li, D. Y. Huang and C. Y. Cai. 2021. Are wounded-tree beetles living fossils? A new nosodendrid genus from Burmese amber with bilobed tarsi (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae). Palaeoentomology 4:50-56

Belongs to Mesonosa according to Y. D. Li et al. 2021

See also Tihelka et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP173928, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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