Bukhkalius
Extinct genus of beetles
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Bukhkalius is an extinct genus of beetle belonging to the family Ommatidae, it contains the single species, Bukhkalius lindae. It was described in 2017 initially as a species of the extant genus Tetraphalerus[1] and was placed into a separate monotypic genus in 2020,[2] which was reaffirmed in a 2021 study.[3] It is known from a single specimen (NIGP 166152) from Burmese amber, dating to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The specimen is around 4.7 mm long and around 1.3 mm wide.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Ommatidae |
| Genus: | †Bukhkalius Kirejtshuk and Jarzembowski 2020 |
| Species: | †B. lindae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bukhkalius lindae (Jarzembowski et al. 2017) | |
