†Metrocephala schaeferi Zettel and Heiss 2011 (marsh treader)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Hydrometridae
Full reference: H. Zettel and E. Heiss. 2011. New species of water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Hydrometridae, Gerridae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 113:543-553
Belongs to Metrocephala according to R. V. Pêgas et al. 2017
See also Zettel and Heiss 2011
Sister taxon: Metrocephala anderseni
Type specimen: He-Aq-1 BB-Hydrometr, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Heiss coll, Tiroler Landesmuseum), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Heiss coll, Tiroler Landesmuseum)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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