The blueprint of the Amphiesmenoptera &ndash; Tarachoptera, a new order of insects from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera)

Wolfram Mey; Wilfried Wichard; Patrick Müller; Bo Wang

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The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte. Paleontological Journal 54: 1221.

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Qingqing Zhang, Wolfram Mey, Jörg Ansorge, Timothy A. Starkey, Luke T. McDonald, Maria E. McNamara, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Wilfried Wichard, Ulysses Thomson, Xiaoyin Ren, Jun Chen, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang (2018)
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Wilfried Wichard, Wolfram Mey (2021)
Order Tarachoptera in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera). Cretaceous Research 119: 104681.

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New taxa of Tarachoptera from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera). Cretaceous Research 90: 154.

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New serphitoid wasp Supraserphites draculi gen. et sp. nov. in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera, Serphitidae: Supraserphitinae). Cretaceous Research 99: 46.

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Wolfram Mey, Wilfried Wichard (2023)
Tarachoptera: The extinct and enigmatic cousins of Trichoptera and Lepidoptera, with descriptions of two new species. Contributions to Entomology 73: 137.

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