†Nigropterix cummingi Sendi 2024 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: H. Sendi. 2024. Nigropterix cummingi sp. n., an umenocoleid (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous northern Myanmar amber. Zootaxa 5424:476-482
Belongs to Nigropterix according to H. Sendi 2024
Sister taxon: Nigropterix angustata
Type specimen: SNM Z 40731, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Slovak National Museum SNM collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Slovak National Museum SNM collection)
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