†Tethysthrips hispanicus Nel et al. 2010 (thrips)
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Insecta - Thysanoptera - Thripidae
Full reference: P. Nel, E. Peñalver, D. Azar, G. Hodebert, and A. Nel. 2010. Modern thrips families Thripidae and Phlaeothripidae in Early Cretaceous amber (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:154-163
Belongs to Tethysthrips according to L. A. Mound and A. Hastenpflug-Vesmanis 2021
See also Nel et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Tethysthrips attenboroughi, Tethysthrips libanicus
Type specimen: ES-07-11, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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