Eocercopis similis Handlirsch 1939 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Progonocimicidae

Alternative combination: Cercoprisca similis

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1939. Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 49:1-240

Belongs to Eocercopis according to Q. P. Dong et al. 2014

See also Popov and Wootton 1977

Sister taxa: Eocercopis ancyloptera, Eocercopis ovalis

Type specimen: Ernst Moritz Arndt Universitat Greifswald 57/4, a forewing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection)

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