Genus Burmasporum Kirejtshuk, 2009 (Spaeriusidae) - Atlas of extinct beetle taxa

A.G.Kirejtshuk

Genus Burmasporum Kirejtshuk, 2009 (type species: Burmasporum rossi Kirejtshuk, 2009, monotype)

A.G.Kirejtshuk, February 2009

On photo below:Burmasporum rossi Kirejtshuk, 2009 -
holotype "19132" - Cretaceous period, Burman amber (Museum of natural history in London).

photo by G. Teylor.

Burmasporum rossi: body from one side

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Burmasporum rossi: body from one side

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Literature:

(look a page also Systematic list of fossil beetles of Cupedina, Carabina и Scarabaeina (part 1) and table Распределение семейств жесткокрылых в палеонтологической летописи)

Kirejtshuk A.G. 2009. A new genus and species of Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera, Myxophaga) from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber. Denisia, 26 (zugleich Katalogue der oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Neue Serie, 86): 99-102.

 

 

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