Mesophthirus Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren

Williams, Douglas J. & Denno, Barbara D., 2024, New genus names, family-group names and misspellings published between 2020 and 2023 in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha), Zootaxa 5415 (2), pp. 347-350 : 347-348

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5415.2.10
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13900014
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scientific name	Mesophthirus Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren
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Mesophthirus Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren , in Gao et al. 2019: 2.

Type species: Mesophthirus engeli Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren.

This insect was originally described in Phthiraptera: Mesophthiridae : incertae sedis. Poinar et al. (2020) transferred it to Hemiptera : Coccomorpha: Xylococcidae (archaeococcoids).

Gao T., Yin, X., Shih, C., Rasnitsyn, A. P., Xu, X., Chen, S., Wang, C. & Ren, D. (2019) New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber. Nature Communications: 5424. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / s 41467 - 019 - 13516 - 4

Poinar, G., Vega, F. E. & Schneider, S. A. (2020) A mid-Cretaceous female scale insect (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) in Burmese amber. Zootaxa, 4810 (3), 511 - 522. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4810.3.7