As of 2004, the type insect was part of the amber collections housed at the British Museum of Natural History, London, England.

Burmese amber has been radiometrically dated using U-Pb isotopes, yielding an age of approximately 99 million years old, close to the Aptian – Cenomanian boundary.

[2] The holotype was first studied by paleoentomologist and coccid researcher Jan Koteja, of the Agricultural University of Kraków.

[1] Burmacoccus is one of three Burmese amber coccid genera that Koteja described in the same paper, the other two being Albicoccus, monotypic to the family Albicoccidae, and the incertae sedis genus Marmyan.

The extinct genera Albicoccus, Apticoccus, Grimaldiella, Kukaspis, Marmyan, Palaeosteingelia, Palaeotupo, Solicoccus, Turonicoccus and possibly Pennygullania, all with simple rows of eyes, were found to form a clade that included Burmacoccus.