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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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