Discocoris dominicanus Slater and Baranowski 2000 (palm bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Thaumastocoridae

Full reference: J. A. Slater and R. M. Baranowski. 2000. Discocoris dominicanus, a new species of palm bug from Dominican amber (Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae). Florida Entomologist 83:349-353

Belongs to Discocoris according to E. Heiss and V. B. Golub 2015

See also Slater and Baranowski 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber, Yanigua, El Valle region (Brodzinsky collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Yanigua Formation of the Dominican Republic

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, Yanigua, El Valle region (Brodzinsky collection)

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