Cretakarenni birmanicus, Peris & Delclòs, 2015

Peris, David & Delclòs, Xavier, 2015, Fossil Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) from Laurasian Cretaceous amber, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 15 (2), pp. 333-342 : 336

Cretakarenni birmanicus sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 )

Holotype JZC Bu–33C, a complete specimen, sex unknown, preserved in a piece of fully transparent amber in syninclusion with three other Coleoptera (i.e. two Staphylinidae and one Leiodidae ), two Diptera ( Cecidomyiidae ) and one Hymenoptera, all housed in the amber collection of the AMNH (New York, USA).

Figures

Fig. 1 C. birmanicus sp. nov., JZC Bu–33C, holotype, from Myanmar; a photo and camera lucida illustration of dorsal habitus; b photo and camera lucida illustration of ventral habitus. Scale bars=0.5 mm. Abbreviations: absutural lines, al; scutellum, sc; notosternal suture, ns; prosternal process, pp; trochantin, tr; abdominal process, ap; postcoxal lines, pl