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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 3: June 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.3.3
Page range: 213-216
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 2

The second representative of the genus Orimarguloides (Diptera: Limoniidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

School of Life Sciences; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Biodiversity Conservation and Characteristic Resource Utilization in Southwest Anhui; Anqing Normal University; Anqing 246011; China
School of Life Sciences; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Biodiversity Conservation and Characteristic Resource Utilization in Southwest Anhui; Anqing Normal University; Anqing 246011; China
Library; Anqing Normal University; Anqing 246011; China
State Scientific Institute Nature Research Centre; Vilnius; Lithuania
The second representative of the genus Orimarguloides (Diptera: Limoniidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Abstract

Burmese amber was regarded as one of the rarer and lesser-known ambers, which has become one of the most important ambers from the Cretaceous Period (66–145 million years ago) over the past two decades for entomologists (Ross, 2025). Until now, about 489 families, 1,497 genera and 2,335 species in the class Insecta are documented from the Cretaceous Burmese ambers (Ross, 2025).

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