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Issue: Vol. 1388 No. 1: 8 Jan. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1388.1.5
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

The first fossil Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea) from the Late Mesozoic of China

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China.
Key Lab of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Pentatomoidea Cydnidae Amnestinae fossil Late Jurassic — Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation China

Abstract

Two new genera and two new species of fossil amnestine burrower bugs, Cilicydnus robustispinus gen. & sp. nov. and Orienicydnus hongi gen. & sp. nov., are described and illustrated. They were collected from the Late Mesozoic nonmarine sedimentary strata of Northeast China. This finding represents the first record of fossil cydnids from China. The fossil cydnid localities and the distribution of extant taxa are summarized in a map.

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