†Festenus microraptor Mainda 2024 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: T. Mainda. 2024. The diminutive fear of the Cretaceous edaphon: Festenus microraptor nov.sp. from 110 Ma old Hkamti-Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 56:129-133
Belongs to Festenus according to T. Mainda 2024
Sister taxa: Festenus annodutt, Festenus gracilis, Festenus robustus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Burmese amber, Hkamti amber (Mainda collection), which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in Myanmar
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Hkamti amber (Mainda collection)
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