†Chaoburmus breviusculus Lukashevich 2000 (phantom midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae
Full reference: E. D. Lukashevich. 2000. Phantom midges (Diptera: Chaoboridae) from Burmese amber. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 56:47-52
Belongs to Chaoburmus according to A. Borkent 2014
See also Lukashevich 2000
Sister taxa: Chaoburmus amphilogos, Chaoburmus victimaartis
Type specimen: NHM In. 20168, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)
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