Chunxiania fania Xu et al. 2022 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Pseudogryllotalpidae

Full reference: C. P. Xu, H. Wang, and Y. Fang. 2022. Taxonomic names, in Chunxiania fania: a new genus and species of mole cricket (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Gryllotalpidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Cretaceous Research 134(105159)

Belongs to Chunxiania according to J. Gu et al. 2024

See also Cadena-CastaƱeda et al. 2023 and Xu et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Chunxiania fascia

Type specimen: LYU-ZC-0201, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Linyi University LYU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Linyi University LYU collection)

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