Prostreptocerus burmiticus Yu and Cai 2024 (stag beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae

Full reference: Y. Yu and C. Cai. 2024. Taxonomic names, in Recent southern hemisphere lamprimine stag beetle in Cretaceous Burmese amber and its biogeographic implications (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Insects 15(658)

Belongs to Prostreptocerus according to Y. Yu and C. Cai 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP205392, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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