Cretoprostominia Jiang et al. 2024 (narrow-waisted bark beetle)

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)

Parent taxon: Prostominiinae according to R. Jiang et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Cretoprostominia myanmarensis

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Type: Cretoprostominia myanmarensis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Guizhou University GUGC collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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