A New Genus of Short-Winged Flower Beetles with an Enlarged Antennal Scape in Mid-Cretaceous Amber from Northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Kateretidae)

The fossil records of Kateretidae from the Mesozoic are significant for understanding origin and early evolution family. recent discoveries Cretaceous kateretids have provided valuable information about palaeodiversity morphological disparity taxa. Here, we establish a new genus species kateretid beetles, Scaporetes rectus gen. et sp. nov., based on specimen preserved in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber northern Myanmar. is characterized by its strongly enlarged scape extremely small labrum. Our discovery highlights late Mesozoic.