†Necrothrips major Schliephake 2000 (thrips)
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Insecta - Thysanoptera - Phlaeothripidae
Full reference: G. Schliephake. 2000. Neue Fransenflügler aus dem Baltischen und Bitterfelder Bernstein (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 84:219-230
Belongs to Necrothrips according to G. Schliephake 2000
Sister taxa: Necrothrips mesus, Necrothrips nanus
Type specimen: Hoffeins 1244/1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Hoffeins collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (Hoffeins collection)
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