†Empicoris copal Popov 1987 (thread-legged bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1987. A new species of the bug genus Empicoris Wolff from Dominican Copal, with the redescription of E. nudus, McAtee & Malloch (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Emesinae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 134:1-9
Belongs to Empicoris according to Y. A. Popov 1987
Sister taxon: Empicoris electricus
Type specimen: SMNS DoC-3050E, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican copal (SMNS coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican copal (SMNS coll)
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