Mezira Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 (flat bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae
Full reference: C. J. B. Amyot and J. G. Audinet-Serville. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères 1-676
Parent taxon: Mezirinae according to E. Heiss et al. 2015
See also Heiss 2000, Heiss and Grimaldi 2001 and Wappler and Heiss 2006
Sister taxa: Brevisensoria, Myanmezira, Neuroctenus
Subtaxa: Mezira crassifemur Mezira eckfeldensis Mezira eocenica Mezira parapetrificata Mezira petrificata Mezira scheveni Mezira succinica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Eocene of Germany (9), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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