Protanaphothrips minoricornis Schliephake 1999 (thrips)

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Thripidae

Alternative combination: Anaphothrips minoricornis

Full reference: G. Schliephake. 1999. Fossil Thrips (Thysanoptera, Insecta) of the Baltic (North- and Baltic Sea) and Saxonian (Bitterfeldian) Tertiary Amber from the Collections of Hoffeins. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 46(1):83-100

Belongs to Protanaphothrips according to L. A. Mound and A. Hastenpflug-Vesmanis 2021

See also Schliephake 1999, Schliephake 2001 and Schliephake 2005

Sister taxa: Protanaphothrips majoricornis, Protanaphothrips suspensus, Protanaphothrips vicinus

Type specimen: Hoffeins 322/1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Isle of Usedom, Baltic Amber, 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

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