Aphlebocoris punctata Handlirsch 1921 (creeping water bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Naucoridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1921. Palaeontologie. Handbuch der Entomologie 3:209-304

Belongs to Aphlebocoris according to Y. A. Popov and R. J. Wootton 1977

See also Handlirsch 1921 and Handlirsch 1939

Sister taxon: Aphlebocoris nana

Type specimen: Ernst Moritz Arndt Universitat Greifswald 57/20, a tegmen. 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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