Toxesbium

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Toxesbium
Temporal range: Cenomanian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Ptinidae
Subfamily: Ernobiinae
Genus: Toxesbium
Species:
T. kundratai
Binomial name
Toxesbium kundratai
Li et. al., 2025

Toxesbium is an extinct genus of ernobiine that lived during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch.

Distribution

Toxesbium kundratai is known from the Burmese amber. [1]

References

  1. Li, Yan-Da; Philips, T. Keith; Huang, Di-Ying; Cai, Chen-Yang (2 March 2025). "Toxesbium gen. nov., the first definitive member of Ernobiinae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)". PalZ . Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/s12542-025-00715-2. ISSN   0031-0220.