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Adult Mantis (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) cf. Betaburmesebuthus bellus This print is an original Old Master engraving dating from the 17th or 18th century, depicting the Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the moment when Christ is presented to the people before his crucifixion. I discovered it in Fontenoy-la-Joûte, a small village in eastern France renowned as the Village du Livre for its many antiquarian bookshops. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ8Vd6skniU/ At first glance, this might look like an ordinary praying mantis. In reality, you are looking at a predator that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 99 million years ago. An incredible and complete Burmaphlebia cf. reifi: a damselfly trapped in time (and in a dirty amber) Bersta vampirica: one of the most intriguing true bugs ever discovered in Burmese amber. Very small larva of... ? (Identification required) Guyotemaimetsha perrichoti Zigrasimecia thate CHAUL, 2023, preserved in Burmese amber from Kachin State, Myanmar, and dating back nearly 99 million years to the Late Cretaceous. Very elegant, complete, detailed and long legged cf. Docidiadia burmitica cf. Nabidae nymph (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Burmese amber, ~99 Ma. Proterosceliopsis sp. A perfect Mesoblattinidae and possible ophiocordyceps fungus protruding from the anterior side of the body. cf. Kachinitermopsis burmensis Trapped in Burmese amber for ~99 million years, meet Anoeuma lawrencei, a mid-Cretaceous beetle that doesn't quite fit anywhere. Described in 2021 (Li, Robin Kundrata & Cai), this soft-bodied elateroid has short elytra that leave the abdomen exposed, hind wing venation that anchors it firmly in Elateroidea, yet a character combination that resists placement in any known family. The other day I found a butterfly (Vanessa cardui) in a very poor state of preservation, which I collected to take some photographs using the supplied microscope lenses, starting with a Sigma macro lens (90mm) for an overall view, before moving on to Mitutoyo microscope lenses at 5x, 10x, 20x and finally 50x magnification. Resting gently on the edge of this piece of amber lies a feather, perfect in its shape and delicacy. Whether it belongs to a feathered dinosaur or a bird, I cannot say; both belong to the same evolutionary line, so it could belong to either. This is a acari with a structure I have never seen before. It is undoubtedly part of the abdomen, and it is not an overlap of two different elements. Embolemidae (Hymenoptera : Chrysidoidea) Perspicuus cf. vrsanskyi KOUBOVA & MLYNSKY (2020) is an extinct dictyopteran genus originally assigned to Umenocoleidae (subfamily Vitisminae) and subsequently transferred by some authors to Cratovitismidae, a reassignment that reflects ongoing instability in umenocoleid systematics. It is known from mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber and from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary, with three described species: the type P. vrsanskyi, P. pilosus, and P. csincsii. These species are assigned to a fast-moving arboreal herbivore ecology. I am extremely pleased to see the publication of a new article by Andrei Legalov on a new genus of beetle belonging to the family Nemonychidae, which I discovered and shared with Andrei for study, in Burmese amber. Burmecaelinus cf. armis Dilaridae (Neuroptera) Dilaridae (Neuroptera) Larva of whirligig beetles, Cretogyrus beuteli ZHAO et al. 2019 Another package with three AmberArt II books is ready to head off to the USA. Symphrasinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)

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