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Issue: Vol. 6 No. 3: June 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.9
Page range: 260–267
Abstract views: 315
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A new fossil species of the saucer bug genus Ilyocoris (Heteroptera, Naucoridae) from the Upper Miocene maar paleolake of la Montagne d’Andance (France)

Sorbonne Université-MNHN-CNRS-CR2P, 4 Pl. Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Materrup, 440 rue des Estagnots, 40230 St Geours de Maremne, France; Association Paléontologique des Hauts Plateaux du Languedoc, 14 chemin des Ecureuils, 48000 Mende, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier 75005 Paris, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier 75005 Paris, France
Heteroptera Naucoridae France Insecta Hemiptera Nepomorpha fossil record

Abstract

The naucorid Ilyocoris andancensis sp. nov., first Miocene representative of its genus, is described on the basis of three compressed mummies found in the maar diatom paleolake of ‘La Montagne d’Andance’ (Ardèche, France). This new species differs from other extant and fossil representatives of the genus by the pattern of coloration of the abdomen and pronotum. The systematic positions of the other fossil taxa previously considered as Naucoridae are discussed.

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