Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration.
Reason: Misinterpreted mouthpart and ecology, it is nymphal scale insect and did not fed on feather.[1]
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Summary
DescriptionMesophthirus engeli fig2 I.jpg
English: Holotype and paratypes of Mesophthirus engeli Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren within the Burmese amber specimen AMBER No. 01. i Artist’s reconstruction of M. engeli of elder development stage feeding on the feather. It was reconstructed mainly based on the morphological characters of the holotype CNU-MA2016009, with supplemental consideration of CNU-MA2016001 and CNU-MA2016003. Colors of the insects are conjectural and referring to the general color of living feather-feeding lice. Scale bar 50 μm.
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