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Issue: Vol. 4258 No. 2: 27 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.2.6
Page range: 172–178
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First description of female of Haplosialodes liui Huang et al., 2016 (Megaloptera: Sialidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Megaloptera alderfly taxonomy Mesozoic Myanmar

Abstract

A female of the alderfly species, Haplosialodes liui Huang et al., 2016, from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described for the first time. Systematic position of the genus Haplosialodes Huang et al., 2016 is briefly discussed.

 

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