Cretaparamecus crassipes Arriaga-Varela et al. 2023 (handsome fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae

Full reference: E. Arriaga-Varela, D. Ren, 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 angustus, Cretaparamecus tarsalis, Cretaparamecus uncinus

Type specimen: CNU 008060, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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