†family Macrodrilidae Poinar 2020 (scale insect)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Macrodrilidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 2020. Macrodrilidae fam. nov. (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea), a new family of scale insects in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Historical Biology 33:1726-1730

Parent taxon: Coccoidea according to G. Poinar 2020

Sister taxa: Adocimycolidae, Alacrena, Apticoccidae, Arnoldidae, Burmacoccidae, Coelostomidiidae, Electrococcidae, Grimaldiellidae, Grohnidae, Jersicoccidae, Kozariidae, Kukaspididae, Kuwaniidae, Labiococcidae, Lebanococcidae, Lithuanicoccidae, Magnilens, Margarodidae, Matsucoccidae, Monophlebidae, Ortheziidae, Pedicellicoccus, Pennygullaniidae, Pityococcidae, Putoidae, Xiphos, Hammanococcidae

Subtaxa: Macrodrilus

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Type: Macrodrilus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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