Preempheria antiqua 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 Preempheria according to S. Álvarez-Parra et al. 2022

See also Baz and Ortuño 2001, Cumming and Le Tirant 2021 and Mockford et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCNA-8888, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Spain (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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