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 1993
Sister taxa: Oxythrips physothripoides, Protoxythrips intermedius, Protoxythrips fritschi, Protoxythrips conclusus, Protoxythrips sepultus, Protoxythrips stenuroideus, Protoxythrips stenurus, Protoxythrips crassicornis, Protoxythrips vigil, Protoxythrips bagnalli, Protoxythrips ursulae
Type specimen: MfN MB.I.793, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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