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Cretaceous lacewing larvae with binocular vision demonstrate the convergent evolution of sophisticated simple eyes

Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 441-452, February 2026.
We report three ca. 100 million‐year‐old lacewing larvae with extraordinarily large stemmata. One of them additionally has a very wide head, which represents a previously unknown morphology. The arrangement of the stemmata indicates stereoscopic vision in these predatory larvae.
Carolin Haug, Florian Braig, Simon J. Linhart, Derek E. G. Briggs, Roland R. Melzer, Alejandro Caballero, Yanzhe Fu, Gideon T. Haug, Marie K. Hörnig, Joachim T. Haug   +9 more
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From Rare to Common: The Live Streaming Industry of Jadeite Trade in Ruili in the China–Myanmar Borderlands

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Since the early years of the 21st century, the city of Ruili has grown to be a major trade hub for Burmese jadeite on the China–Myanmar border. Starting from 2016 to 2017, Ruili's jadeite trade shifted heavily to online live streaming transactions through media platforms like Douyin, RedNote/Xiaohongshu, and Taobao/Tmall.
Yi Ma
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Fossils in Myanmar amber demonstrate the diversity of anti-predator strategies of Cretaceous holometabolan insect larvae

iScience
Summary: Holometabolan larvae are a major part of the animal biomass and an important food source for many animals. Many larvae evolved anti-predator strategies and some of these can even be recognized in fossils.
Carolin Haug, Joachim T. Haug, Gideon T. Haug, Patrick Müller, Ana Zippel, Christine Kiesmüller, Joshua Gauweiler, Marie K. Hörnig   +7 more
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Analyses of expanded anchored‐hybrid phylogenomic datasets support revisions to the higher classification of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January‐March 2026.
Phylogenomic analyses of 269 terminal taxa, representing all extant families, subfamilies and over 96% of the extant tribes of Membracoidea, recovered the majority of the leafhopper subfamilies as monophyletic. Taxonomic revisions are proposed for the higher‐level classification of Cicadellidae based on the consistently recovered relationships and ...
Yanghui Cao, Christopher H. Dietrich, Dmitry A. Dmitriev, Hongfen Zou, Qingquan Xue, Yalin Zhang   +5 more
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Long Story of Long Antennae: Mesozoic Origins of the Subfamily Macrocerinae (Diptera: Keroplatidae)

Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, Volume 99, Issue 5, Page 1225-1248, October 2025.
Abstract The early evolutionary history of the Macrocerinae subfamily (Diptera: Keroplatidae) is poorly understood. However, new material from the Cretaceous, particularly in amber, provides a better understanding of this subject. We reassign the oldest known species of Macrocerinae, Hegalari minor Blagoderov & Arillo, 2002, from the amber of Álava ...
Alicja PEŁCZYŃSKA, Vladimir BLAGODEROV, Wiesław KRZEMIŃSKI, Agnieszka SOSZYŃSKA   +3 more
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A new species of the genus Granulobium Li et al., 2023 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Cretaceous Kachin amber

Ecologica Montenegrina
A new species, Granulobium perkovskyi sp. nov., is described and illustrated from late Cretaceous Kachin amber. The new species differs from Granulobium whitei Li et al., 2023 in three key characteristics: the punctate pronotum, the larger eyes, the ...
A. Legalov, Vladislav A. Legalov
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Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous

iScience, 2020
Summary: The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca.
David Peris, Conrad C. Labandeira, Eduardo Barrón, Xavier Delclòs, Jes Rust, Bo Wang   +5 more
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Revised phylogenomic analysis and Cretaceous fossil evidence reveal new insights into evolution of Scirtinae (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 1166-1178, September 2025.
The molecular phylogeny of Scirtinae based on ultraconserved elements is reanalyzed using the site‐heterogeneous model CAT‐GTR+G4. A new scirtine fossil, Serracyphon philipsi gen. et sp. nov., is reported from mid‐Cretaceous Kachin amber, and its placement is evaluated in light of the updated phylogenomic framework of Scirtinae.
Yan‑Da Li, Rafał Ruta, Di‑Ying Huang, Chen‑Yang Cai   +3 more
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The oldest known fossil imago of Ameletopsidae (Ephemeroptera) from 99-million-year-old Kachin amber

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
A new fossil genus and species of the mayfly family Ameletopsidae, Paprika atsukochibae gen. & sp. nov., is described from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar.
Zhiteng Chen, Xuhongyi Zheng
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Placing Nothophylica piloburmensis from Cretaceous amber into the angiosperm phylogeny

TAXON, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 933-937, August 2025.
Abstract Recently, we redescribed an amber inclusion from mid‐Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar, previously assigned to the extant genus Phylica in Rhamnaceae (core eudicots), and placed it in a new fossil‐genus, Nothophylica. Based on our reconstructions, we identified new floral features and instead suggested affinities within magnoliids, especially
Simon Beurel, Julien B. Bachelier, Clément Coiffard, Alexander R. Schmidt, Eva‐Maria Sadowski   +4 more
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