†Gapenus rhinariatus Drohojowska and Szwedo 2013 (whitefly)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Aleyrodidae
Full reference: J. Drohojowska and J. Szwedo. 2013. Gapenus rhinariatus gen. sp. n., a new whitefly from Lebanese amber (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae). Insect Evolution in an Ambiferous and Stone Alphabet 99-110
Belongs to Gapenus according to J. Chen et al. 2019
See also Drohojowska and Szwedo 2013 and Szwedo and Drohojowska 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN Azar 1568, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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