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Issue: Vol. 3268 No. 1: 13 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3268.1.5
Page range: 47–54
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 2

The first Carventinae species in Miocene Dominican Amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae)

Entomology Research Associate, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Josef-Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Courtesy Professor, Department of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall,Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2914 USA
Hemiptera Heteroptera Aradidae Carventinae Miocene Dominican Amber new genus new species

Abstract

The flat bug family Aradidae is represented to date in Dominican Amber only by two species: Calisiopsis brodzinskyorumFroeschner, 1992 and Mezira scheveni Heiss, 2000 belonging to the subfamilies Calisiinae and Mezirinae respectively.Now two fossil species sharing the characters of the extant genera Nesoproxius Usinger & Matsuda, 1959 (N.latocanusn.sp.) and Carventus Stål, 1865 (C. bechlyi n.sp.), and one tentatively assigned to Acaricoris Harris & Drake, 1944 (A.robertae n.sp.), are described and illustrated below. Another specimen cannot be placed into an extant genus, and Proneoproxius n.gen. is proposed to accommodate P.cornutus n.sp.

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