Protanaphothrips majoricornis Schliephake 1999 (thrips)

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Thripidae

Alternative combination: Anaphothrips majoricornis

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 G. Schliephake 2003

See also Schliephake 1999

Sister taxa: Protanaphothrips minoricornis, Protanaphothrips suspensus, Protanaphothrips vicinus

Type specimen: Hoffeins 37/2, 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)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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