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Myanmaro primus gen. et sp. nov., the first orthoclad (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber
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Giłka, Wojciech, Makarchenko, Eugenyi A., Pankowski, Mary K., Zakrzewska, Marta (2019): Myanmaro primus gen. et sp. nov., the first orthoclad (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4565 (1): 61-70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.1.4
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