Burmacoenagrion pretiosus Zheng et al. 2017 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Burmacoenagrionidae

Full reference: D. R. Zheng, A. Nel, H. C. Zhang, S. C. Chang, E. A. Jarzembowski, D. Zhuo, and B. Wang. 2017. A highly diverse coenagrionoid damselfly group (Odonata: Zygoptera: Burmacoenagrionidae fam. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:239-253

Belongs to Burmacoenagrion according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 165219, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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