Insecta - Hemiptera - Liadopsyllidae
Alternative combination: Mesopsylla longiforceps
Full reference: E. E. Becker-Migdisova. 1985. Iskopaemye Nasekomye Psillomorfy. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 206:1-92
Belongs to Liadopsylla according to J. Drohojowska et al. 2020
See also Becker-Migdisova 1985 and Ouvrard et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Liadopsylla (Basicella), Liadopsylla apedetica, Liadopsylla asiatica, Liadopsylla brevifurcata, Liadopsylla geinitzi, Liadopsylla grandis, Liadopsylla hesperia, Liadopsylla karatavica, Liadopsylla lautereri, Liadopsylla loginovae, Liadopsylla mongolica, Liadopsylla obtusa, Liadopsylla tenuicornis, Liadopsylla turkestanica, Lithentomum praecox
Type specimen: PIN 2066/3451, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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