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Issue: Vol. 5057 No. 4: 26 Oct. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5057.4.7
Page range: 571-576
Abstract views: 317
PDF downloaded: 28

A new genus and species of the subfamily Mirinae (Hemiptera: Cimicomorpha: Miridae) from Eocene Baltic amber with a new generic combination for Calocoris antennatus Statz in Statz & Wagner, 1950

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Département de l’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, BE-5030, Belgium, EU.
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea. 3Department of Smart Agriculture Systems, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
Hemiptera Fossil Heteroptera plant bugs Baltiomiris herczeki gen. and sp. nov.

Abstract

A new fossil mirid, Baltiomiris herczeki gen. and sp. nov. is described from Eocene Baltic amber. Available morphological information is provided with photographs. Additionally, Calocoris antennatus Statz in Statz & Wagner, 1950, a compression fossil, is transferred to the extant genus Mermitelocerus Reuter based on similarities of habitus, particularly of head structures.

 

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