Macrodrilus 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: Macrodrilidae according to G. Poinar 2020

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Macrodrilus bostrychus

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Type: Macrodrilus bostrychus

Ecology:

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

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