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Issue: Vol. 2499 No. 1: 9 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2499.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

The first psallopinous bug from Lowermost Eocene French amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)

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USM 203 / DHT, Entomologie, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France & Laboratoire PROTEE (EA 3819). Equipe Ecologie et Biologie des Milieux Aquatiques (EBMA). Campus de la Garde. Université du Sud-Toulon-Var. 83952 La Garde cedex, France
CNRS UMR 7205, CP 50, Entomologie, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 45 Rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France
Hemiptera Miridae Psallopinae sp. nov. Lowermost Eocene French amber

Abstract

Isometopsallops prokopi sp. nov., the oldest known psallopinous Miridae and first representative of the Baltic amber genus Isometopsallops, is described from the Lowermost Eocene French amber. A brief discussion on the value and polarity of the available characters for the phylogenetic relationships between Cylapinae, Isometopinae, and Psallopinae is proposed.

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