Lewisothrips telothripoideus Schliephake 1993 (thrips)

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 Lewisothrips according to L. A. Mound and A. Hastenpflug-Vesmanis 2021

See also Schliephake 1993

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MfN MB.I.794, 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)

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