Mengea tertiaria Menge 1866 (twisted-winged parasite)

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Mengeidae

Alternative combination: Triaena tertiaria

Full reference: A. Menge. 1866. Ueber ein Rhipidopteron und einige andere im bernstein eingeschlossene tiere. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig 1(3):1-8

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

See also Keilbach 1939, Kinzelbach and Pohl 1994, Menge 1866, Scudder 1885 and Ulrich 1927

Sister taxon: Mengea mengei

Type specimen: MEPAS 9270, an exoskeleton (male imagine). Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (3 collections), the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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