Insecta - Dicondylia - Mesophthiridae
Alternative spelling: Mesophthirinae
Full reference: T. P. Gao, C. K. Shih, A. P. Rasnitsyn and D. Ren. 2019. Taxonomic names, in New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber. Nature Communications 10(5424)
Parent taxon: Neoptera according to T. P. Gao et al. 2022
See also Gao et al. 2019, Grimaldi and Vea 2021 and Shcherbakov 2022
Sister taxa: Ampelipteridae, Apheloneuridae, Archaemiopteridae, Archipanorpidae, Asiuropidae, Baryshnyalidae, Blattoneoptera, Boltonocostidae, Choristosialidae, Clareocercaria, Controversala, Dictyophara scudderi, Endoneoptera, Eopanorpella, Exopterygota, Gelasopteridae, Glosselytrodea, Hemineoptera, Holometabola, Metropatoridae, Metropatorites, Micropalentomidae, Mixotermitoidea, Naucoris crassus, Oiophassus, Orthoneoptera, Palaeoheteroptera, Palaeonepidoideus, Paraneoptera, Perielytridae, Permembiidae, Permosialidae, Polyneoptera, Prosigara, Psocodea, Saurodectidae, Sibosmylina, Sinembiidae, Sphalmatoblattina, Sycopteridae, Sycopteron, Synomaloptilidae, Tillyardites, Trachopterygidae, Triadochorista, Trichorthophlebia, Uninervidae
Subtaxa: Mesophthirus
Type: Mesophthirus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)