†Cretoprostominia myanmarensis Jiang et al. 2024 (narrow-waisted bark beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Salpingidae
Full reference: R. Jiang, Z. Liu, and X. Chen. 2024. Cretoprostominia myanmarensis gen. et sp. n., the oldest salpingid beetle (Coleoptera: Salpingidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 160(105896)
Belongs to Cretoprostominia according to R. Jiang et al. 2024
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GUGC-FOSSIL-0003, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Guizhou University GUGC collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Guizhou University GUGC collection)
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