Insecta - Thysanoptera - Thripidae
Full reference: G. Schliephake. 1999. Fossil Thrips (Thysanoptera, Insecta) of the Baltic (North- and Baltic Sea) and Saxonian (Bitterfeldian) Tertiary Amber from the Collections of Hoffeins. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 46(1):83-100
Belongs to Protoxythrips according to G. Schliephake 1999
Sister taxa: Oxythrips physothripoides, Protoxythrips crassicornis, Protoxythrips fritschi, Protoxythrips conclusus, Protoxythrips sepultus, Protoxythrips ursulae, Protoxythrips bagnalli, Protoxythrips stenurus, Protoxythrips vigil, Protoxythrips stenuroideus, Protoxythrips probus
Type specimen: Hoffeins 322/2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Isle of Usedom, Baltic Amber, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Isle of Usedom, Baltic Amber
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