Enervipraeala nigra Luo et al. 2020 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: C. H. Luo, C. P. Xu, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2020. Enervipraeala nigra gen. et sp. nov., a umenocoleid dictyopteran (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Cretaceous Research 119(104702)

Belongs to Enervipraeala according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Luo et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP-Umen-02, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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