Normarkicoccus cambayae Vea and Grimaldi 2015 (armoured scale insect)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Diaspididae

Full reference: I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi. 2015. Diverse new scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in amber from the Cretaceous and Eocene with a phylogenetic framework for fossil Coccoidea. American Museum Novitates 3823:1-80

Belongs to Normarkicoccus according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BSIPL Tad-135, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection)

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