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

Mey, Wolfram; Wichard, Wilfried; Müller, Patrick; Wang, Bo

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

Wolfram Mey, Wilfried Wichard, Patrick Müller, and Bo Wang

Wolfram Mey

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wolfram.mey@mfn-berlin.de

Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity Research at the Humboldt University, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Wilfried Wichard

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

wichard@uni-koeln.de

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5933-6292

University of Cologne, Institute of Biology, Gronewaldstr. 2, 50931 Cologne, Germany

Patrick Müller

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

pat14789@web.de

independent researcher: Friedhofstraße 9 66894 Käshofen, Germany

Bo Wang

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

bowang@nigpas.ac.cn

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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