Enervipraeala Luo et al. 2020 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: C. H. Luo, C. P. Xu, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2020. Enervipraeala nigra gen. et sp. nov., a umenocoleid dictyopteran (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Cretaceous Research 119(104702)

Parent taxon: Umenocoleidae according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Luo et al. 2020 and Vršanský 2021

Sister taxa: Alienopterix, Alienopterixinae, Archaeospinapteryx, Blattapterix, Compunctiotypus, Cratovitisma, Elytropterix, Laticephalana, Nigropterix, Petropterix, Poikiloprosopon, Ponopterix, Pseudoblattapterix, Pseudojantaropterix, Trapezionotum, Umenocoleus, Umenopterix, Umenotypus, Vitisminae, Vzrkadlenie

Subtaxa: Enervipraeala nigra

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Type: Enervipraeala nigra

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

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

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