†Proboscisthrips mammuthoides Ulitzka 2017 (thrips)
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Insecta - Thysanoptera - Melanthripidae
Full reference: M. R. Ulitzka. 2017. Revision of the fossil Melanthripidae from Baltic Tertiary (Eocene) amber including a new genus (Insecta: Thysanoptera) . Entomologische Zeitschrift 127:205-212
Belongs to Proboscisthrips according to L. A. Mound and A. Hastenpflug-Vesmanis 2021
See also Ulitzka 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMF T 19263, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Senckenberg Frankfurt (SMF) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Senckenberg Frankfurt (SMF) collection
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