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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 1: February 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.1.3
Page range: 9-12
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 6

A new burmacoenagrionid damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

Henan International Joint Laboratory of Taxonomy and Systematic Evolution of Insecta, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 453003, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Laboratory of Gold Mineralization Processes and Resources Utilization, MNR, Shandong Key Laboratory of Mineralization Processes and Resources Utilization of Strategic Metal Minerals, Shandong Institute of Geological Sciences, Jinan 250013, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China
Odonata Zygoptera

Abstract

The zygopteran family Burmacoenagrionidae Zheng, Nel & Wang, 2019 is endemic to the west Burma Block and occurring during the mid-Cretaceous (Zheng et al., 2019). It was considered to be a member of the Coenagrionoidea Kirby, 1890, which is the dominant group of the extant damselflies (Dijkstra et al., 2014). Four burmacoenagrionid genera have been previously described, including Burmacoenagrion Zheng, Nel & Wang, 2019, Burmagrion Möstel, Schorr & Bechly, 2017, Burmachistigma Zheng, Nel & Wang, 2019, and Electrocoenagrion Zheng, Nel & Wang, 2019 (Möstel et al., 2017; Zheng et al., 2019). This indicates that Burmacoenagrionidae is the most diversified zygopteran family currently recorded in the Kachin amber (Zheng, 2020).

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