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A close affinity of the enigmatic genus Stegocoleus with Lepidomma revealed by new fossil evidence (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)

scientific article

A miniaturized ommatid beetle in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)

scientific article

A new fossil species of the rove beetle subfamily Protopselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article

A new genus of alderflies (Megaloptera: Sialidae) in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article published in 2016

A new genus of giant sooty mould beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cyclaxyridae)

scholarly article published in 2021

A new genus of wounded-tree beetles from mid-Cretaceous northern Myanmar amber (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae)

scientific article published in 2021

A new mesopanorpodid scorpionfly (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Mesozoic of Jilin Province, northeastern China

A new orthophlebiid scorpionfly (Insecta, Orthophlebiidae) from the Late Jurassic Linglongta biota of northern China

scientific article published on 8 February 2021

A new species of Burmalestes Tomaszewska & Ślipiński from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Coleoptera: Endomychidae)

scientific article published in 2023

A new species of Trichopolydesmidae (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article published on 23 December 2022

A new subfamily of hide beetles from the Cretaceous of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae)

scholarly article published in 2019

A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft‐winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)

scholarly article published in 2021

A transitional fossil sheds light on the early evolution of the Staphylinine group of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

scholarly article published in 2021

Amphibious flies and paedomorphism in the Jurassic period

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An aberrant colydiine-like tenebrionoid beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Zopheridae)

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

An exquisitely preserved tiny bark‐gnawing beetle (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from mid‐Cretaceous Burmese amber and the phylogeny of Trogossitidae

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

An unusual artematopodid beetle from Early Cretaceous Wealden amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae)

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

An unusual lineage of Helotidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Nitiduloidea)

scientific article published in 2023

Anomocephalobus, a new genus of minute marsh-loving beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Limnichidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Are wounded-tree beetles living fossils? A new nosodendrid genus from Burmese amber with bilobed tarsi (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae)

scholarly article published in 2021

Congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies of the rove beetle subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence

scientific article published in 2021

Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China

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Earliest fossil record of Corylophidae from Burmese amber and phylogeny of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea)

scientific article published on 18 August 2022

Earliest teredid beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Teredidae): new genus and species

scientific article published in 2022

Enigmatic tenebrionoid beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)

scholarly article published in 2021

First Artematopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

First Mesozoic procercopids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea)

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

First false darkling beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Melandryidae)

scientific article published on 7 October 2019

First member of the New World genus Diceroderes from early Miocene Mexican amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae: Toxicini)

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First thaneroclerid beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae)

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Further evidence of Cretaceous termitophily: Description of new termite hosts of the trichopseniine Cretotrichopsenius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with emendations to the classification of lower termites (Isoptera)

scholarly article published in 2021

Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid

scientific article published on 21 December 2021

Integrated phylogenomic and fossil evidence of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) reveal a Permian-Triassic co-origination with insectivores

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Muonabuntor gen. nov., a new genus of false click beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Eucnemidae)

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

New Data, Old Story: Molecular Data Illuminate the Tribal Relationships among Rove Beetles of the Subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

New genera and species of parachoristids (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Tongchuan entomofauna of Shaanxi Province, northwestern China

scientific article published in 2023

New insect fossils discovered from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation at the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, NW China

New species of Mesopsyche Tillyard, 1917 (Mecoptera: Mesopsychidae) from the Triassic of northwestern China

scholarly article published in 2021

New species of Paraodontomma from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with muscle tissue preservation (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)

scholarly article published in 2021

New species of Vetuprostomis from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Prostomidae)

scientific article published in 2022

New species of permochoristids (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the late Middle Triassic Tongchuan entomofauna in Shaanxi Province, northwestern China

scientific article published on 7 October 2022

On the Nosodendridae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Nosodendroidea)

scientific article published on 17 December 2021

On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)

scientific article published in 2024

Palaeozoic insects from China with discussion on their ages

scientific article published in 2022

Parelateriformius from the Middle–Late Jurassic of China reinterpreted as the earliest Dascillidae (Coleoptera: Dascilloidea)

scientific article published in 2022

Pleuroceratos jiewenae sp. nov.: A new Cretaceous phloeostichid beetle (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Phloeostichidae)

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Revisiting the morphology of the Cretaceous ommatid beetle Clessidromma palmeri (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Specialised subcortical cylindrical bark beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae)

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Specialized proteinine rove beetles shed light on insect-fungal associations in the Cretaceous

scientific article published in December 2016

The Core Eudicot Boom Registered in Myanmar Amber

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

The first araripeneurine antlion in Burmese amber (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

scientific article published in 2016

The first fossil Hybocephalini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the middle Eocene of Europe and its evolutionary and biogeographic implications

scientific article published in 2022

Zaiwa: A new genus of the family Lophocateridae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)

scholarly article published in 2021

Nothotytthonyx, a new genus of Malthininae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar

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