†Vitisma coriacea Sendi 2024 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: H. Sendi. 2024. Vitisma coriacea sp.n. (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from the mid-Cretaceous in northern Myanmar, first record of the genus in amber. Zootaxa 5437:294-300
Belongs to Vitisma according to H. Sendi 2024
Sister taxa: Vitisma diffusa, Vitisma occidentalis, Vitisma okata, Vitisma orientalis, Vitisma rasnitsyni
Type specimen: SNM Z 40733, 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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