Stonychopygia laticoncava Wang et al. 2022 (earwig)

Insecta - Dermaptera - Pygidicranidae

Full reference: J. L. Wang, M. S. Engel, C. K. Shih and D. Ren. 2022. A new earwig species of Stonychopygia from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Cretaceous Research 142(105382)

Belongs to Stonychopygia according to J. L. Wang et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Stonychopygia leptocerca

Type specimen: CNU-DER-MA2022001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection)

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