†Sinobelostoma liui Zhao and Hong 1989 (giant water bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Full reference: Y. Zhao and Y. C. Hong. 1989. An Early Cretaceous new genus and species in Shaanganning Basin (Insecta: Heteroptera). Entomotaxonomia 11:197-205
Belongs to Sinobelostoma according to Y. C. Hong 1995
See also Nel and Paicheler 1992 and Zhao and Hong 1989
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Beijing Natural History Museum 82N001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is SYF11, Niuposi, Shenyu, Huatang County, which is in a Hauterivian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone in the Huachi-Huanhe Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at SYF11, Niuposi, Shenyu, Huatang County
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