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Issue: Vol. 5489 No. 1: 31 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5489.1.6
Page range: 99-106
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Late Cretaceous thrips (Thysanoptera) from Hti Lin amber

Thrips-iD; Straßburger Straße 37A; 77652 Offenburg; Germany
Thysanoptera Campanian Melanthripidae Stenurothripidae Tilin amber

Abstract

The present study provides a first investigation of fossil thrips from the Late Cretaceous. It deals with two specimens—Avithrips yellae gen. et sp. n. and Campanithrips kyakhei gen. et sp. n.—which are preserved as inclusions in Campanian Hti Lin (or Tilin) amber from Myanmar. Their taxonomic classification in the families Melanthripidae and Stenurothripidae, as well as an adhering pollen grain suggest that both thrips may have been associated with flowers.

 

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