†Halovelia electrodominica Andersen and Poinar 1998 (riffle bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Veliidae
Full reference: N. M. Andersen and G. O. Poinar. 1998. A marine water strider (Hemiptera: Veliidae) from Dominican amber. Entomologica Scandinavica 29:1-9
Belongs to Halovelia according to N. M. Andersen 2001
See also Andersen 1998 and Andersen and Poinar 1998
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: OSU HE-4-28, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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