Burmophilopota, Feng & Zhuang & Shih & Ren & Wang, 2024

Feng, Qi, Zhuang, Jialiang, Shih, Chungkun, Ren, Dong & Wang, Yongjie, 2024, The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 435-443 : 436

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DF238035-DC15-4409-AD90-2335F2BB31E9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13618989
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/09728059-136C-4FCF-A86C-E61F21F1C12D
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:09728059-136C-4FCF-A86C-E61F21F1C12D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Burmophilopota
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Burmophilopota gen. nov.

Type species. Burmophilopota wintertoni gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Short labellate mouthparts; maxillary palp absent; complete wing venation with veins reaching wing margin; forked R 4+5; absence of crossvein r-m2; CuP and CuA separated to wing margin; wing cell m 3 present.

Etymology. The generic name is a combination of Burmo - (Burmese) and philopota (the type genus of Philopotinae ) in reference to the location of the new genus.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Acroceridae

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