Palaeopsylla groehni Beaucournu 2003 (flea)

Insecta - Siphonaptera - Ctenophthalmidae

Full reference: J. C. Beaucournu. 2003. Palaeopsylla groehni n. sp., quatrième espèce de Puce connue de l'ambre de la Baltique (Siphonaptera, Ctenophthalmidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 108:217-220

Belongs to Palaeopsylla according to A. Pielowska et al. 2018

See also Beaucournu 2003

Sister taxa: Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla), Palaeopsylla dissimilis, Palaeopsylla klebsiana

Type specimen: Groehn 2732, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection

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