Alumeda antilliana Popov 1989 (thread-legged bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae

Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1989. Alumeda n.g., a new bug genus erected for three fossil species from Dominican Amber (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Emesinae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 150:1-14

Belongs to Alumeda according to Y. A. Popov 1989

Sister taxa: Alumeda dominicana, Alumeda nigricans, Alumeda solorzanokraemerae

Type specimen: SMNS Do-3861-M-1, 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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