{{Short description|Extinct genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Cenomanian}} | image = Burmocoleus.png | image_caption = ''Burmocoleus prisnyi'' | taxon = Burmocoleus | authority = Kirejtshuk, 2020 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *†'''''B. zhiyuani''''' (Liu et al., 2017) *†'''''B. prisnyi''''' Kirejtshuk, 2020 }}
'''''Burmocoleus''''' is an extinct genus of archostematan beetle belonging to the family Ommatidae. It is known from two species, ''Burmocoleus zhiyuani,'' which was initially assigned to the genus ''Brochocoleus''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Zhenhua|last2=Tan|first2=Jingjing|last3=Ślipiński|first3=Adam|last4=Jarzembowski|first4=Edmund A.|last5=Wang|first5=Bo|last6=Ren|first6=Dong|last7=Pang|first7=Hong|date=March 2017|title=Brochocoleus Zhiyuani, a New Species of Brochocolein Beetle (Coleoptera: Ommatidae) from the Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00034541anz2017.67.1.009|journal=Annales Zoologici|volume=67|issue=1|pages=79–85|doi=10.3161/00034541anz2017.67.1.009|s2cid=90264728|issn=0003-4541|url-access=subscription}}</ref> This species 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 aged Burmese amber from Myanmar.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Kirejtshuk|first=Alexander G.|date=2020-02-17|title=Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea|journal=Geosciences|volume=10|issue=2|pages=73|doi=10.3390/geosciences10020073|bibcode=2020Geosc..10...73K |issn=2076-3263|doi-access=free}}</ref> Similar to ''Stegocoleus'', ''Brochocoleus'' 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.<ref name=":0" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/burmoc_g.htm ''Burmocoleus'' at Zin.ru (in Russian) with Hi-Res photographs]
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Category:Ommatidae Category:Burmese amber Category:Fossil taxa described in 2020 Category:Fossil beetle genera
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