据2016年5月12日《中国科学报》报道,中国农业大学刘星月团队描述了缅甸发现的白垩纪中期(大约9900万年前)琥珀中保存的3个蝶蛉类物种。这些昆虫的口器长度在0.4~1.0 mm之间,在目前已知的化石传粉昆虫中最为短小。研究者认为,这些拥有特化的吸收式口器的昆虫,很有可能以花蜜或者花粉为食,它们的长型口器可能起到了临时 According to a report in the China Science Newspaper on May 12, 2016, Liu Xingyue team from China Agricultural University described three butterfly species found in Myanmar during the mid-Cretaceous (about 99 million years ago) amber. The length of the mouthparts of these insects ranged from 0.4 mm to 1.0 mm and was the shortest among the fossil pollinators known to date. Researchers believe that these insects with specialized mouth-openers are likely to feed nectar or pollen, and their long mouthparts may play a temporary