Insecta - Notoptera - Mantophasmatidae
Alternative combination: Adicophasma spinosa
Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi. 2004. A new rock crawler in Baltic Amber, with comments on the order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae). American Museum Novitates 3431:1-11
Belongs to Adicophasma according to E. E. Perkovsky and S. Y. Storozhenko 2024
See also Arillo and Engel 2006, Engel and Grimaldi 2004 and Zompro 2005
Sister taxa: Adicophasma groehni, Adicophasma grylloblattoides, Adicophasma hafniensis
Type specimen: AMNH B-1025, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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