†Xiphos vani Vea and Grimaldi 2015 (scale insect)
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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 Xiphos according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Azar 1215, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
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