†Cretaparamecus angustus Arriaga-Varela et al. 2023 (handsome fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae
Full reference: E. Arriaga-Varela, K. Szawaryn, and W. Tomaszewska. 2023. Taxonomic names, in Remarkable diversity of the handsome fungus beetles genus Cretaparamecus (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Merophysiinae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 151(105664)
Belongs to Cretaparamecus according to E. Arriaga-Varela et al. 2023
Sister taxa: Cretaparamecus crassipes, Cretaparamecus tarsalis, Cretaparamecus uncinus
Type specimen: MAIG 6002, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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