Melanthripidae is a family of thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera. Members of the family, covered with gymnosperm pollen, were found in Cretaceous Spanish amber about 110-105 million years old. They are believed to have been pollinators of the Ginkgoales.
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Melanthripidae is a family of thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera. Members of the family, covered with gymnosperm pollen, were found in Cretaceous Spanish amber about 110-105 million years old. They are believed to have been pollinators of the Ginkgoales.
Genera: Ankothrips Crawford, 1909 †Archankothrips Priesner, 1924 Cranothrips Bagnall, 1915 Dorythrips Hood, 1931 †Eocranothrips Bagnall, 1927 †Gymnopollisthrips Peñalver, Nel & Nel, 1927 Melanthrips Haliday, 1836 †Proboscisthrips Ulitzka, 2017
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).