†Archaeatropos alavensis Baz and Ortuño 2000 (bark louse)
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Insecta - Psocodea - Archaeatropidae
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
Belongs to Archaeatropos according to S. Álvarez-Parra et al. 2022
See also Baz and Ortuño 2000, Cumming and Le Tirant 2021 and Mockford et al. 2013
Sister taxon: Archaeatropos randatae
Type specimen: MCNA 8834, 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 (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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