†Palaeosteingelia acrai Koteja and Azar 2008 (true bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Steingeliidae
Full reference: J. Koteja and D. Azar. 2008. Scale insects from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccinea). Alavesia 2:133-167
Belongs to Palaeosteingelia according to J. Koteja and D. Azar 2008
Sister taxon: Palaeosteingelia caudata
Type specimen: HAM-413A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
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