Eogyropsylla pankowskii Ashe-Jepson and Ouvrard 2019 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphalaridae

Full reference: E. Ashe-Jepson and D. Ouvrard. 2019. Taxonomic names, in Phylogeny of the Eocene Aphalarinae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from Baltic amber, with description of a new species using X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning, and a new genus synonymy. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1013-1024

Belongs to Eogyropsylla according to E. Ashe-Jepson and D. Ouvrard 2019

Sister taxa: Eogyropsylla eocenica, Eogyropsylla jantaria, Eogyropsylla magna, Eogyropsylla parva, Eogyropsylla paveloctogenarius, Eogyropsylla sedzimiri, Eogyropsylla weitschati

Type specimen: NHMUK PI II.3106, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (BMNH coll)

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