†Mesophthirus engeli 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)
Belongs to Mesophthirus according to T. P. Gao et al. 2022
See also Gao et al. 2019, Grimaldi and Vea 2021 and Shcherbakov 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CNU-MA2016009, a nymph. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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