Thrip in amber


A thrip, a small to minute sucking insect seen here preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene.


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Keywords: amber, animal, arthropod, arthropoda, cenozoic, dominican, fossil, fossilised, hexapod, hexapoda, insect, insecta, invertebrata, invertebrate, minute, miocene, period, phanerozoic, prehistoric, prehistory, preserved, tertiary, thrip, thysanoptera