†Amplectister terapoides Yamamoto and Caterino 2022 (clown beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Histeridae
Full reference: S. Yamamoto and M. S. Caterino. 2022. A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous clown beetles. Palaeoworld 32:481-489
Belongs to Amplectister according to S. Yamamoto and M. S. Caterino 2022
Sister taxon: Amplectister tenax
Type specimen: SEHU-0000121201, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Hokkaido University SEHU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Hokkaido University SEHU collection)
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