''Burmocoelus'' is an extinct genus of

Archostemata The Archostemata are the smallest suborder of beetles, consisting 45 living species in five families. They are an ancient lineage with a number of primitive characteristics. Antennae may be thread-shaped (filiform) or like a string of beads (mon ...

n beetle belonging to the family

Ommatidae The Ommatidae are a family of beetles in the suborder Archostemata. The Ommatidae are considered the extant beetle family that has most ancestral characteristics. There are only seven extant species, confined to Australia and South America. How ...

. It is known from two species, ''Burmocoleus zhiyuani,'' which was initially assigned to the genus ''

Brochocoleus ''Brochocoleus'' is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Early Jurassic to the Early Late Cretaceous. 9 species are currently recognised, with many species being reassigned to other genera by Kirejtshuk's major sys ...

'' this was placed into the new genus ''Burmocoleus'' by Kirejtshuk, 2020, who also described a new species, ''Burmocoleus prisnyi.'' Both species are known from the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

aged

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

from Myanmar. Similar to '' Stegocoleus'', ''

'' and '' Jarzembowskiops'' it has flat, wide elytral edges, but can be distinguished from these genera in several characters, and is more similar to other ommatids in the characters of the

prothorax The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

References

External links

''Burmocoelus'' at Zin.ru (in Russian) with Hi-Res photographs
{{Taxonbar, from=Q104859533 Ommatidae Burmese amber Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric beetle genera