Hirmoneura burmanica Liu and Huang 2019 (tangle-veined fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Full reference: Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang. 2019. New materials of Nemestrinidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 104(104173)

Belongs to Hirmoneura according to Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang 2019

Sister taxa: Hirmoneura (Eohirmoneura), Hirmoneura (Hirmoneura), Hirmoneura (Hirmoneurites), Hirmoneura caudiprima, Hirmoneura messelense, Hirmoneura mostovskii, Hirmoneura richterae, Hirmoneura zigrasi

Type specimen: NIGP169673, 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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