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Issue: Vol. 4058 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.9
Page range: 135–140
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

A new genus and species of Rhopalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China

Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
Hemiptera Coreoidea fossil Yixian Formation

Abstract

A new fossil Vescisalignus indecorus gen. et sp. nov. (Rhopalidae) is described and illustrated from the Early Cretaceous. All the specimens described here were collected from the Yixian Formantion of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, northeastern China. This is the first report of rhopalid from Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, China.