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The Weevil Fauna Preserved in Burmese Amber—Snapshot of a Unique, Extinct Lineage (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

open access: yesDiversity, 2018
Only a few weevils have been described from Burmese amber, and although most have been misclassified, they show unusual and specialised characters unknown in extant weevils.
Dave Clarke   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Further records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar)

open access: yesCretaceous Research, 2015
A new biting midge Archiculicoides andersoni sp. nov. from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. An unknown male of Leptoconops myanmaricus Szadziewski, 2004 is described and an undetermined female of the genus Archiaustroconops ...
Ryszard Szadziewski, Wojciech Giłka
exaly   +2 more sources

Arthropods in Burmese Amber [PDF]

open access: yesPsyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1917
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
T. D. A. Cockerell
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Snail with Periostracal Hairs Preserved in Burmese Amber. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience, 2019
Excellently preserved fossils often provide important insights into evolutionary histories and adaptations to environmental change in Earth's biogeologic record. Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, for example, is a proven reservoir for spectacular findings.
Neubauer TA, Xing L, Jochum A.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Cretolixon – a remarkable new genus of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Rhopalosomatidae) from chemically tested, mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber supports the monophyly of Rhopalosomatinae [PDF]

open access: yesFossil Record, 2020
Rhopalosomatidae, currently considered the sister group of the Vespidae, are an enigmatic family of aculeate wasps that originated in the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous. Despite their considerable age, very few fossils of the family have been reported
V. Lohrmann   +8 more
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New species of Omma Newman from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Archostemata, Ommatidae) [PDF]

open access: yesDeutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2021
A new fossil species of the extant archostematan genus Omma Newman, O. forte sp. nov., is reported from mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. The extinct ommatid genus, Cionocups Kirejtshuk from the same deposit, is considered as a junior synonym ...
Yan-Da Li   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

An alternative perspective for acquisitions of amber from Myanmar including recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Council

open access: yesJournal of International Humanitarian Action, 2021
Recent publications have been actively recommending strong embargos on Burmese amber trade and research. Although the motivation of these actions seeks to prevent armed groups from obtaining capital via amber trade, which in the views of the authors ...
Adolf Peretti
doaj   +1 more source

The first stage of the evolution of Rhabdomastix (Diptera, Limoniidae) and the taxonomic implications of genus

open access: yesThe European Zoological Journal, 2021
A new subgenus Myanmamastix subgen. n. and four new species of Rhabdomastix from Cenomanian Burmese amber were described: Rhabdomastix (Myanmamastix) asiatica subgen. and sp. n., Rhabdomastix (Myanmamastix) cretacica subgen. and sp.
I. Kania-Kłosok   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A remarkable new family of stinging wasps from the Cretaceous of Myanmar and China (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hymenoptera Research, 2022
Burmese amber provides a unique window to the Cretaceous entomofauna, being the most prolific source of fossil insects for the period. Presently, about 61% of the Hymenoptera described from amber deposits in Myanmar are stinging wasps (Aculeata ...
Anderson Lepeco   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Burmogonus gen. nov., a New Click Beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
The click beetles (Elateridae) originated in the Mesozoic and recently form a relatively large family with approximately 10,000 described species worldwide. However, the Mesozoic, and particularly Cretaceous, click beetle fauna remains very poorly known.
Katerina Triskova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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