The extant telephone-pole beetle genus Micromalthus discovered in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Micromalthidae)

The telephone-pole beetle family Micromalthidae has attracted the attention of entomologists and biologists because of its enigmatic morphology, systematic position, and complex life cycle. With only a single extant and four extinct species, the micromalthid beetles are a small but important lineage within the primitive suborder Archostemata. Fossil micromathids, known mainly from different amber deposits, are not commonly found. Here, I report...