Albertoberotha leuckorum McKellar and Engel 2009 (thorny lacewing)

Insecta - Neuroptera - Rhachiberothidae

Full reference: R. C. McKellar and M. S. Engel. 2009. A new thorny lacewing (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from Canadian Cretaceous amber. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 82(2):114-121

Belongs to Albertoberotha according to H. Nakamine et al. 2020

See also Makarkin 2015 and McKellar and Engel 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMP 91.148.790, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP 91.148 accession), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP 91.148 accession)

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