Cydnus sagittifer Heer 1853 (burrowing bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae

Alternative combination: Cydnopsis sagittifera

Full reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138

Belongs to Cydnus according to N. Theobald 1937

See also Förster 1891

Sister taxa: Cydnus acriscutatus, Cydnus archaicus, Cydnus armiger, Cydnus atavinus, Cydnus brevicollis, Cydnus brevicrassus, Cydnus cinctus, Cydnus cristatus, Cydnus dignus, Cydnus heeri, Cydnus maximus, Cydnus meunieri, Cydnus oeningensis, Cydnus parvus, Cydnus picatus, Cydnus pygmaeus, Cydnus solutus, Cydnus tertiarius, Brachypelta retrita, Brachypelta rotundata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen, upper quarry, which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (1 collection)

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

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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