Burmacroneuria projecta Chen 2019 (common stonefly)

Insecta - Plecoptera - Perlidae

Full reference: Z. T. Chen. 2019. A remarkable new stonefly with bisexual structures in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta: Perlidae). Cretaceous Research 104(104189)

Belongs to Burmacroneuria according to Z. T. Chen 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CZT-PLE-MA8, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CZT Chen amber/Jiangsu University collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: volant detritivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CZT Chen amber/Jiangsu University collection)

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