†Mesophthirus Gao et al. 2019 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Dicondylia - Mesophthiridae
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: Mesophthiridae according to T. P. Gao et al. 2022
See also Gao et al. 2019, Grimaldi and Vea 2021 and Shcherbakov 2022
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Mesophthirus engeli
Type: Mesophthirus engeli
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
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