† Archankothrips varicornis

Nomenclatural details

Melanothrips varicornis Bagnall 1923: 36.
Archankothrips zawirskae Schliephake, 2001: 19. Synonymised by Ulitzka 2017: 206.

Biology and distribution

Fossil species; described from Baltic amber (A. varicornis, A. zawirskae).

References

Bagnall RS (1923) Fossil Thysanoptera I, Terebrantia Pt. I. Entomologist’s monthly Magazine 59: 35–38.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall’s Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology Supplement 11: 1–181.

Schliephake G (2001) Thysanoptera (Insecta) of the Tertiary amber of the Museum of the Earth, Warsaw, with keys to the species of the Baltic and Bitterfeld amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 46: 17–39.

Ulitzka MR (2017) Revision of the fossil Melanthripidae from Baltic Tertiary (Eocene) amber including a new genus (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 127 (4): 205–212.

Type information

Holotype (A. varicornis) ♀: The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype (A. zawirskae) ♂: Museum of the Earth, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.