Laticephalana liuyani Luo et al. 2021 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: C. H. Luo, R. G. Beutel, C. P. Xu and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2021. †Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 132:469-478

Belongs to Laticephalana according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Luo et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: RPX19001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Ruipoxuan Amber Museum coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Ruipoxuan Amber Museum coll)

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