Empheropsocus margineglabrus Baz and Ortuño 2001 (bark louse)

Insecta - Psocodea - Empheriidae

Full reference: A. Baz and V. M. Ortuño. 2001. New genera and species of empheriids (Psocoptera: Empheriidae) from the Cretaceous amber of Alava, northern Spain. Cretaceous Research 22:575-584

Belongs to Empheropsocus according to R. T. Cumming and S. Le Tirant 2021

See also Baz and Ortuño 2001 and Mockford et al. 2013

Sister taxon: Empheropsocus arilloi

Type specimen: MCNA-9755, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I

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