†Calisius balticus Usinger 1941 (flat bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae
Full reference: R. L. Usinger. 1941. Two new species of Aradidae from Baltic amber (Hemiptera). Psyche 48:95-100
Belongs to Calisius according to E. Heiss 2013
See also Heiss 2000, Heiss 2002, Marchal et al. 2011 and Usinger 1941
Sister taxa: Calisius hoffeinsorum, Calisius rietscheli, Calisius vonholti, Calisius weitschati
Type specimen: MCZ 4634, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection), Germany (3), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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