†Discocoris dominicanus Slater and Baranowski 2000 (palm bug)
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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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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