Insecta - Hemiptera - Enicocephalidae
Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi, C. Michalski, and K. Schmidt. 1993. Amber fossil Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon and Oligo-Miocene of the Dominican Republic, with biogeographic analysis of Enicocephalus. American Museum Novitates 3071:1-30
Belongs to Enicocephalus according to D. A. Grimaldi et al. 1993
Sister taxa: Enicocephalus omen, Enicocephalus seniculus, Enicocephalus subvitreus
Type specimen: AMNH 11835, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Vega group of mines (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Vega group of mines (AMNH coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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