Cretopiesma suukyiae Grimaldi and Engel 2008 (flat bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae

Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi and M. S. Engel. 2008. An unusual, primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma). American Museum Novitates 3611:1-17

Belongs to Cretopiesma according to D. Azar et al. 2020

See also Grimaldi and Engel 2008

Sister taxa: Cretopiesma anticum, Cretopiesma engelgrimaldii, Cretopiesma inexpectatum, Cretopiesma lini

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-958, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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