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Merothripidae

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Merothripidae is a family of thrips in the order Thysanoptera. There are at least 4 genera and 20 described species in Merothripidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merothripidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4385	https://www.gbif.org/species/4385
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	233044	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=233044

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Thysanoptera : Merothripidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
superorder	Thripida	Fallen 1814
order	Thysanoptera	Haliday 1836
suborder	Terebrantia	Haliday 1836
family	Merothripidae	Hood 1914

Common Name

long legged thrips

Scientific Name

Merothripidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Merothripidae	family	belongs to Terebrantia	stated with evidence	Priesner, 1929

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. Priesner. 1929. Bernstein-Thysanopteren II. Bernstein-Forschungen 1:111-138

Common Name(s)

Long Legged Thrips, Large-legged Thrips

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merothripidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Damerothrips genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Erotidothrips genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Jezzinothrips ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Merothrips genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Myanmarothrips ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Praemerothrips ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Jezzinothripidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Thysanoptera : Jezzinothripidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1914	Merothripidae Hood
1929	Merothripidae Priesner p. 134
1973	Jezzinothripidae zur Strassen p. 43
2018	Merothripidae Ulitzka p. 550

References

Priesner H. (1929) Bernstein-Thysanopteren II, Bernstein-Forschungen 1, 111-138

zur Strassen R. (1973) Fossile Fransenflügler aus mesozoischem Bernstein des Libanon, Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie) 256, 1-51

Ulitzka M. R. (2018) A first survey of Cretaceous thrips from Burmese amber including the establishment of a new family of Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera), Zootaxa 4486, 548-558

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Jacot-Guillarmod, C. F., 1970: Catalogue of the Thysanoptera of the world (Pt. 1). Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History), vol. 7, pt. 1. 1-216. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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