Mezira scheveni Heiss 2000 (flat bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae

Full reference: E. Heiss. 2000. First Record of a Mezirinae Flat Bug from Dominican Amber: Mezira scheveni n. sp. (Heteroptera, Aradidae). Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt 7:6-10

Belongs to Mezira according to E. Heiss and D. Grimaldi 2001

See also Heiss 2000

Sister taxa: Mezira crassifemur, Mezira eckfeldensis, Mezira eocenica, Mezira parapetrificata, Mezira petrificata, Mezira succinica

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Heiss Coll.) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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