Archaeatropos Baz and Ortuño 2000 (bark louse)

Insecta - Psocodea - Empheriidae

Full reference: A. Baz and V. M. Ortuño. 2000. Archaeatropidae, a new family of Psocoptera from the Cretaceous Amber of Alava, northern Spain. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93:367-373

Parent taxon: Empheriidae according to M. Hakim et al. 2025

See also Álvarez-Parra et al. 2022, Baz and Ortuño 2000, Cumming and Le Tirant 2021, Hakim and Azar 2024, Hakim et al. 2023, Li et al. 2022 and Mockford et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Archaeatropoglaris, Bcharreglaris, Burmempheria, Danyazarius, Empheria, Empherium, Empheropsocus, Eoempheria, Jerseyempheria, Libanoglaris, Paralellopsocus, Preempheria, Santonipsocus, Setoglaris, Trichempheria, Prospeleketor, Proprionoglaris, Longiantennum, Heliadesdakruon

Subtaxa: Archaeatropos alavensis Archaeatropos randatae

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Type: Archaeatropos alavensis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (3 collections), Spain (4)

Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences

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