The first tiger beetle (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Cicindelidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar

Hujia rolfi gen. et. sp. nov, the first tiger beetle from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber and the earliest record of the tribe Manticorini, is described based on a well-preserved male specimen. It is attributable to the tribe Manticorini due to the dark body (lacking evidence of bright-coloured pigments), eyes not bulging from the head and the very similar mandibles to constituent genera of this tribe; it can be distinguished from other genera mainly by its transverse labrum with at least 7 submarginal setae and multidentate anterior margin, and long labial palpus with long setae on palpomere 2. The new taxon was likely epigeic and nocturnal. It represents the third definite Mesozoic record of Cicindelidae, the first record of the Manticorini from Asia, and extends the origin time of the tribe to as early as the mid-Cretaceous.