Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)
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1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Systematic Paleontology
3.2. Description of a New Fossil Material
4. Discussions
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
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Conflicts of Interest
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Ševčík, J.; Krzemiński, W.; Skibińska, K. Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha). Insects 2020, 11, 552. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11090552
Ševčík J, Krzemiński W, Skibińska K. Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha). Insects. 2020; 11(9):552. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11090552
Chicago/Turabian StyleŠevčík, Jan, Wiesław Krzemiński, and Kornelia Skibińska. 2020. "Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)" Insects 11, no. 9: 552. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11090552