Pseudoweitschatus audebertis Vea and Grimaldi 2015 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Weitschatidae

Full reference: I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi. 2015. Diverse new scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in amber from the Cretaceous and Eocene with a phylogenetic framework for fossil Coccoidea. American Museum Novitates 3823:1-80

Belongs to Pseudoweitschatus according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-1416, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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