Panorpidium longirostre Peñalver and Grimaldi 2010

Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae

Alternative combination: Burmelcana longirostris

Full reference: E. Peñalver and D. A. Grimaldi. 2010. Latest occurrences of the Mesozoic family Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera), in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and Spain. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:88-99

Belongs to Panorpidium according to Q. Zhou et al. 2022

See also Peñalver and Grimaldi 2010

Sister taxa: Panorpidium beyrichi, Panorpidium bimaculatum, Panorpidium deichmuelleri, Panorpidium geinitzi, Panorpidium lata, Panorpidium liasina, Panorpidium lithophila, Panorpidium longicornis, Panorpidium maculosum, Panorpidium magna, Panorpidium media, Panorpidium mesostena, Panorpidium minima, Panorpidium minuta, Panorpidium oppenheimi, Panorpidium parvum, Panorpidium phyllophora, Panorpidium plagiatus, Panorpidium proximum, Panorpidium reticulata, Panorpidium sibirica, Panorpidium spica, Panorpidium tessellatum, Panorpidium westwoodi, Panorpidium yixianensis, Elcana lithophila, Elcana plagiata, Elcana (Clathrotermes), Calotermes troglodytes

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-1451, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

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

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