Insecta - Thysanoptera - Thripidae
Full reference: G. Schliephake. 1993. Beitrage zur Kenntnis fossiler Fransenflugler (Thysanoptera, Insecta) aus dem Bernstein des Tertiar. 2. Beitrag: Aeolothripidae (Melanthripinae) und Thripidae (Dendrothripinae und Thripinae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 120:215-251
Belongs to Protoxythrips according to G. Schliephake 2005
See also Schliephake 1993, Schliephake 2001 and Schliephake 2001
Sister taxa: Oxythrips physothripoides, Protoxythrips vigil, Protoxythrips intermedius, Protoxythrips stenurus, Protoxythrips probus, Protoxythrips sepultus, Protoxythrips conclusus, Protoxythrips bagnalli, Protoxythrips fritschi, Protoxythrips stenuroideus, Protoxythrips crassicornis
Type specimen: MfN MB.I.791, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (2 collections), Poland (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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