†Malacopus wygodzinskyi Popov 1987 (thread-legged bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1987. Synopsis of the neotropical bug genus Malacopus Stål with the description of a new fossil species from Dominican Amber (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Emesinae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 130:1-15
Belongs to Malacopus according to Y. A. Popov 1987
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMNS Do-3390-M, 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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