Amecephala pusilla Drohojowska et al. 2020 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Liadopsyllidae

Full reference: J. Drohojowska, J. Szwedo, P. Müller and D. Burckhardt. 2020. New fossil from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber confirms monophyly of Liadopsyllidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Scientific Reports 10(17607)

Belongs to Amecephala according to J. Drohojowska et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MAIG 6686, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll)

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