Palaeopsylla dissimilis Peus 1968 (flea)

Insecta - Siphonaptera - Ctenophthalmidae

Full reference: F. Peus. 1968. Über die beiden Bernstein-Flöhe (Insecta, Siphonaptera). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 42:62-72

Belongs to Palaeopsylla according to A. Pielowska et al. 2018

See also Peus 1968

Sister taxa: Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla), Palaeopsylla groehni, Palaeopsylla klebsiana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Scheele collection, University of Hamburg, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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