Microberotha

Microberotha
Temporal range: Ypresian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Berothidae
Subfamily: Cyrenoberothinae
Genus: โ€ Microberotha
Archibald & Makarkin, 2004
Species:
M. macculloughi
Binomial name
Microberotha macculloughi

Microberotha is an extinct monotypic genus of "beaded lacewing" in the family Berothidae known from a fossil found in North America. When described the genus contained a single Ypresian-age species Microberotha macculloughi.[1]

  1. ^ Archibald, S.B.; Makarkin, V.N. (2004). "New genus of minute Berothidae (Neuroptera) from Early Eocene amber of British Columbia". The Canadian Entomologist. 136 (1): 61โ€“76. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.552.2285. doi:10.4039/n03-043. S2CID 36459014.