Dunstania pulchra Tillyard 1916 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Dunstaniidae

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1916. Descriptions of the fossil Insects; Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of Queensland and New South Wales. Descriptions of the fossil Insects and stratigraphical features. Queensland Geological Survey (253)11-70

Belongs to Dunstania according to R. J. Tillyard 1918

See also Tillyard 1916 and Tillyard 1923

Sister taxa: Dunstania petrophila, Dunstaniopsis triassica

Type specimen: GSQI2, a hindwing. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1909 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1909 collection)

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