Canadaphis carpenteri Essig 1937 (aphid)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Canadaphididae

Full reference: E. O. Essig. 1937. Order Homoptera, Family Aphididae, in Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber. University of Toronto Studies in Geology 40:17-21

Belongs to Canadaphis according to B. Ogłaza and P. Wegierek 2023

See also Essig 1937, Heie and Wegierek 2011 and Richards 1966

Sister taxa: Canadaphis kovalevi, Canadaphis mordvilkoi, Canadaphis ugolyaki

Type specimen: ROM 30, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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