Insecta - Coleoptera - Lepiceridae

Alternative combination: Lepicerus mumia

Full reference: P. Jałoszyński and S. Yamamoto. 2017. Taxonomic names, in Discovery of a new Mesozoic species of the ancient genus Lepicerus (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Lepiceridae), with implications for the systematic placement of all previously described extinct 'lepiceroids'. Cretaceous Research 78:95-102

Belongs to Lepichelus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk et al. 2023

See also Jałoszyński and Yamamoto 2017

Sister taxon: Lepichelus pretiosus

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SY16, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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