page_title: Burmese amber
section_title: Thysanoptera
hierarchical_section_title: Burmese amber / Fauna and flora / Invertebrates / Insects / Thysanoptera
caption_attribution_description: English: Largusoperla billwymani, holotype SMNS BU-229, photographs. (A) Dorsal view, arrow marks trapezoid pronotum.
context_page_description: Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 99 million years old, during the earliest part of the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected.
context_section_description: Four families of thrips are known, including: Aeolothripidae, †Rohrthripidae, Thripidae and Stenurothripidae.
caption: Largusoperla billwymani, a member of Plecoptera
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