Burperla decolorata Chen 2020 (common stonefly)

Insecta - Plecoptera - Perlidae

Full reference: Z. T. Chen. 2020. New genus of Cretaceous stonefly (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Kachin amber, Myanmar. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 59:58-63

Belongs to Burperla according to Z. T. Chen 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ICJUST CZT-PLE-MA9, 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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