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†family Saurodectidae Rasnitsyn and Zherikhin 1999 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Saurodectidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and V. V. Zherikhin. 1999. First fossil chewing louse from the Lower Cretaceous of Baissa, Transbaikalia (Insecta, Pediculida=Phthiriaptera, Saurodectidae fam n). Russian Entomological Journal 8(4):253-255

Parent taxon: Neoptera according to R. C. Dalgleish et al. 2006

See also Rasnitsyn and Zherikhin 1999

Sister taxa: Ampelipteridae, Apheloneuridae, Archaemiopteridae, Archipanorpidae, Asiuropidae, Baryshnyalidae, Blattoneoptera, Boltonocostidae, Choristosialidae, Clareocercaria, Controversala, Dictyodipteridae, Dictyophara scudderi, Endoneoptera, Eopanorpella, Exopterygota, Gelasopteridae, Glosselytrodea, Hemineoptera, Holometabola, Metropatoridae, Metropatorites, Micropalentomidae, Mixotermitoidea, Naucoris crassus, Oiophassus, Orthoneoptera, Palaeoheteroptera, Palaeonepidoideus, Paraneoptera, Perielytridae, Permembiidae, Permosialidae, Polyneoptera, Prosigara, Psocodea, Sibosmylina, Sinembiidae, Sphalmatoblattina, Sycopteridae, Sycopteron, Synomaloptilidae, Tillyardites, Trachopterygidae, Triadochorista, Trichorthophlebia, Uninervidae

Subtaxa: Saurodectes

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 4210, layer 35) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

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