Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Burmomiles angustipennis

Full reference: Y. Yang, W. Zhao, and H. Liu. 2024. Four new species of Burmomiles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 160(105893)

Belongs to Sanaungulus according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Yang et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dentatus, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus elongaticollis, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus longicornis, Sanaungulus marginalis, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus recticollis, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus strungei, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum

Type specimen: MHBU BU-COL-CAN0010, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Hebei University MHBU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Hebei University MHBU collection)

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