Burmahemiphlebia hui Zheng and Wang 2018 (greenling)

Insecta - Odonata - Hemiphlebiidae

Full reference: D. R. Zheng and B. Wang. 2018. The second hemiphlebiid damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Alcheringa 43:257-260

Belongs to Burmahemiphlebia according to D. R. Zheng and B. Wang 2018

Sister taxon: Burmahemiphlebia zhangi

Type specimen: NIGP168256, 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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