Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae

Alternative combination: Panorpidium maculosum

Full reference: Q. Zhou, C. P. Xu, E. A. Jarzembowski and C. T. Xiao. 2022. A new species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Cretaceous Research 136(105226)

Belongs to Pseudopanorpidium according to L. A. Willmott et al. 2025

See also Zhou et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: YU-OR-100001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Yangtze University collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

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

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