Family Scutelleridae Leach 1815 (metallic shield bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Scutelleridae

Alternative spelling: Scutellerinae

Parent taxon: Pentatomoidea according to J. Szwedo 2018

See also Piton 1940, Statz and Wagner 1950 and Wu et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Acanthosomatidae, Chinchekoala, Cydnidae, Cyrtocoridae, Dinidoridae, Megarididae, Mesopentacoridae, Pentatomidae, Phloeidae, Plataspidae, Primipentatomidae, Probascanionidae, Protocoridae, Tessaratomidae, Urostylididae

Subtaxa: Eurygastrinae Pachycorinae Scutellerinae Tectocorinae Teleocydnus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Japan (1 collection)

• Miocene of Germany (5)

• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2), Hungary (1)

• Eocene of Denmark (3), Germany (1)

• Paleocene of France (1)

Total: 16 collections including 22 occurrences

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