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2016 , Vol. 41 >Issue 3: 327 - 331

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201637

A new species of ice crawlers from Burmese amber (Insecta: Grylloblattodea)

  • Weiwei Zhang ,
  • Mingxia Guo ,
  • Xingke Yang ,
  • Ming Bai
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2Three Gorges Entomological Museum, Chongqing 400015, China

Online published: 2016-07-24

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This research was supported by the National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (Special Subjects in Animal Taxonomy, NSFC-J1210002), the Special Fiscal Funds of Shaanxi Province (2013-19), Research Equipment Development Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (YZ201509), and by a Humboldt Fellowship (M.B.) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Abstract

Modern grylloblattids are one of the least diverse insect orders. The single extant family is contrasted with 46 families described from the fossil records, which extend to the Late Carboniferous. The most ancient grylloblattid nymphs are known from the Lower Permian. Till now, there is no report on grylloblattid from Burmese amber, which is a very old amber locality. Herein, we describe Sylvalitoralis cheni Zhang, Bai & Yang, sp. nov. from Grylloblattina based on a nymph specimen from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber.

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Weiwei Zhang , Mingxia Guo , Xingke Yang , Ming Bai . A new species of ice crawlers from Burmese amber (Insecta: Grylloblattodea)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2016 , 41(3) : 327 -331 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.201637

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