Psallops popovi Herczek 2011 (plant bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Miridae

Full reference: A. Herczek. 2011. First record of the plant bug subfamily Psallopinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Miridae) from Dominican amber, with a description of a new species of the genus Psallops USINGER, 1946. Polish Journal of Entomology 80:689-697

Belongs to Psallops according to A. Herczek 2011

Sister taxa: Psallops bitterfeldi, Psallops eocenicus

Type specimen: SMNS Do-4116, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (SMNS coll)

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