Palaeomyrmecolax neotropicallis Kogan and Poinar 2010

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Alternative combination: Stylops neotropicallis

Full reference: M. Kogan and G. Poinar. 2010. New Fossil Stylops (Strepsiptera: Stylopidae) from Dominican Amber. Neotropical Entomology 39(2):227-234

Belongs to Palaeomyrmecolax according to M. S. Engel and D. Y. Huang 2016

See also Kogan and Poinar 2010 and Kogan et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Palaeomyrmecolax giecewiczi, Palaeomyrmecolax gracilis, Palaeomyrmecolax succineus, Palaeomyrmecolax triangulum, Palaeomyrmecolax weitschati

Type specimen: Poinar D-1-11, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Poinar collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Poinar collection

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