Cratocora crassa Martins-Neto 2005 (creeping water bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Naucoridae

Full reference: R. G. Martins-Neto. 2005. New Heteroptera (Insecta) from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous (Northeastern Brazil), with description of a new family and new taxa of Naucoridae and Gelastocoridae. Gaea 1(2):68-74

Belongs to Cratocora according to R. G. Martins-Neto 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPFT-I-026, an exoskeleton (complete body). Its type locality is Crato, Pedra Branca Quarry (MPFT collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Crato, Pedra Branca Quarry (MPFT collection)

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