Burmantis hexispinea Li and Huang 2018 (mantis)

Insecta - Mantodea

Full reference: X. R. Li and D. Y. Huang. 2018. A new praying mantis from middle Cretaceous Burmese amber exhibits bilateral asymmetry of forefemoral spination (Insecta: Dictyoptera). Cretaceous Research 91:269-273

Belongs to Burmantis according to X. R. Li and D. Y. Huang 2018

Sister taxa: Burmantis asiatica, Burmantis burmitica, Burmantis lebanensis, Burmantis zherikhini

Type specimen: NIGP 167805, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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