Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2002. The smallest snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae): a new species in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, with a catalog of fossil snakeflies. American Museum Novitates 3363:1-22
Parent taxon: Nanoraphidiini according to X. Y. Liu et al. 2016
See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Engel 2002, Jepson et al. 2011 and Lu et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Burmoraphidia, Cantabroraphidia, Dolichoraphidia, Grimaldiraphidia, Lebanoraphidia, Rhynchoraphidia
Subtaxa: Nanoraphidia electroburmica Nanoraphidia lithographica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections), Spain (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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