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A hatching aphidlion-like lacewing larva in 100 million years old Kachin amber
Joachim T Haug1,2, Kay Lwin Tun3, Gideon T Haug1
1Biocenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
Insect Science
|December 17, 2022
Abstract:
We report a fossil aphidlion-like larva preserved with its egg case in 100 million year old Kachin amber, Myanmar. It appears to have been enclosed very shortly after hatching, especially when comparing it with extant aphidlions during hatching. Although hatching aphidlion-like larvae are known from amber from other localities, this is the first case from Myanmar amber, despite the comparably high number of lacewing larvae known from the latter.

