The first notocupedin beetle in mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata)

A rare ommatine beetle, Notocupes ohmkuhnlei sp. nov. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata), is described in Kachin amber from northern Myanmar. It is the first notocupedin in amber to be described from the fossil record belonging to an extinct, Mesozoic-Palaeocene group of archaic reticulated beetles which are better known as impressions in the sedimentary rocks of Eurasia and East Gondwana. The new species belongs to Notocupes sensu lato with...