The About 100 Million Years Old Enigmatic “Beak Larva” Is a Weird Click Beetle Relative [PDF]
Insects“Beak larva” is a collective term for four fossil specimens from Kachin amber, which are holometabolan larvae with a forward-projecting beak. This arrangement is very unusual, and so far it has been unclear whether these specimens are larvae of beetles ...
Simon J. Linhart +4 more
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Revisiting early angiosperm pollination: a reassessment of Angimordella beetle and co-occurring thrips from mid-Cretaceous amber [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground The Cretaceous rise of angiosperms profoundly reshaped terrestrial ecosystems, yet direct fossil evidence of early insect–angiosperm interactions remains scarce.
Yan‑Da Li +5 more
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The third Asilidae (Diptera: Asiloidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.)Asilidae, also known as assassin flies, are rare in Mesozoic deposits, with the highest diversity documented from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber and the Aptian Crato Formation. To enhance our understanding of the past diversity of this group, we describe and illustrate a new genus and species, named Burmatriclis spinosus n. gen. n. sp.
Miquel, M, Jouault, C, Huang, D, Nel, A
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An additional ✝Archearadinae flat-bug species from Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera, Aradidae) [PDF]
ZooKeysCurrently 19 species of Aradidae (flat bugs) are known from the Cretaceous deposits of Burma (Burmese/Kachin amber). In reviewing unidentified aradid species from this deposit, an unnamed species was located.
Royce T. Cumming, Julia J. Mlynarek
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A New Subgenus and Species of Priochirus from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae). [PDF]
Insects, 2022 SIMPLE SUMMARY: Despite the extant diversity of the rove beetle subfamily Osoriinae, its fossil record remains meagre. The present study reports a new species Priochirus (Eopriochirus) trisclerite subgen. et sp. nov.
Peng Y +5 more
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An unusual Cretaceous beetle with affinity to Anamorphidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) [PDF]
PeerJCoccinelloid beetles have a sparse fossil record in the Mesozoic. Here, we describe and illustrate an unusual coccinelloid beetle, Yassibum yoshitomii gen. et sp. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.
Yan-Da Li +4 more
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Mid-Cretaceous sand fly (Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) illuminates early diversification of Old World fauna [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) are medically important insects with an interesting, but poorly understood, evolutionary history. The abundance and diversity of inclusions of these flies in Myanmar (Burmese) amber provide valuable data ...
Szymon Kaczmarek +4 more
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New genera and species of Ripipterygidae (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber [PDF]
Contributions to EntomologyTwo new genera and species of Ripipterygidae Ander, 1939 are described from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of Northern Myanmar. Ozymandipteryx campana gen. et sp. nov. is remarkable for its absent or very reduced metatarsus.
Ole-Kristian Odin Schall +2 more
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Mid-Cretaceous coastal amber forest palaeoenvironment revealed by exceptionally preserved ostracods from an extant lineage [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2022 As a famous fossil Lagerstätte, the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) amber from Kachin, northern Myanmar, harbors one of the most diverse Mesozoic palaeobiotas yet discovered.
He Wang +2 more
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First Fossil Record of Trichomanes sensu lato (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber, Myanmar. [PDF]
Life (Basel), 2023 Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns), with ca. 430 species, are the most species-rich family of early diverging leptosporangiate ferns but have a poor fossil record dating back to the Late Triassic period.
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