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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 3: June 2021
Type: Short Communication
Published: 2021-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.3.6
Page range: 213–217
Abstract views: 532
PDF downloaded: 26

A new species of Cormopsocidae from Burmese amber (Psocodea; Trogiomorpha)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China Lebanese University, Faculty of Science II, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El-Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China
Psocoptera Psocodea Trogiomorpha

Abstract

Recently established, Cormopsocidae Yoshizawa & Lienhard, 2020 is an extinct psocodean trogiomorphan family, with its fossil record from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. To date, this family comprises a total of three species: Cormopsocus groehni Yoshizawa & Lienhard, 2020, Cormopsocus neli Hakim et al., 2021 and Cormopsocus perantiqua (Cockerell, 1919).

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