Insecta - Thysanoptera - Stenurothripidae
Full reference: G. Schliephake. 1999. Fossil Thrips (Thysanoptera, Insecta) of the Baltic (North- and Baltic Sea) and Saxonian (Bitterfeldian) Tertiary Amber from the Collections of Hoffeins. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 46(1):83-100
Belongs to Stenurothrips according to A. S. Shmakov and E. E. Perkovsky 2009
See also Schliephake 2001
Sister taxa: Stenurothrips bagnalli, Stenurothrips brachycerus, Stenurothrips brevisetis, Stenurothrips melior, Stenurothrips polonius, Stenurothrips succineus
Type specimen: Nr. 777, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections), Ukraine (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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