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Issue: Vol. 3227 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3227.1.4
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 1

Kachinocoris brevipennis n.gen., n.sp. in Cretaceous Burmese Amber(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae)

Research Entomologist, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Josef Schraffl Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Hemiptera Heteroptera Aradidae cretaceous Burmese amber new genus new species Myanmar

Abstract

From an inclusion in Cretaceous Burmese amber a new genus of flat bugs, Kachinocoris n.gen., is described; its type species K. brevipennis n.sp. is illustrated.

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