†Canadaphis carpenteri Essig 1937 (aphid)
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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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