†Preempheria antiqua Baz and Ortuño 2001 (bark louse)
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Insecta - Psocodea - Empheriidae
Full reference: A. Baz and V. M. Ortuño. 2001. New genera and species of empheriids (Psocoptera: Empheriidae) from the Cretaceous amber of Alava, northern Spain. Cretaceous Research 22:575-584
Belongs to Preempheria according to S. Álvarez-Parra et al. 2022
See also Baz and Ortuño 2001, Cumming and Le Tirant 2021 and Mockford et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MCNA-8888, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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