Micromantispa cristata Shi et al. 2015 (thorny lacewing)

Insecta - Neuroptera - Rhachiberothidae

Full reference: C. F. Shi, M. Ohl, J. Wunderlich and D. Ren. 2015. A remarkable new genus of Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from Cretaceous amber of Myanmar and its implications on raptorial foreleg evolution in Mantispidae. Cretaceous Research 52:416-422

Belongs to Micromantispa according to H. Nakamine et al. 2020

See also Jepson 2015, Makarkin 2015 and Shi et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Micromantispa galeata, Micromantispa spicata

Type specimen: F2331_BU_CFW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll)

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