Aradus nicholasi Popov 1989 (flat bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae

Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1989. New fossil Hemiptera (Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha) from the Mesozoic of Mongolia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1977:166-181

Belongs to Aradus according to Y. A. Popov 1989

Sister taxa: Aradus andancensis, Aradus antediluvianus, Aradus assimilis, Aradus balticus, Aradus consimilis, Aradus creticus, Aradus damzeni, Aradus frater, Aradus frateroides, Aradus goellnerae, Aradus grabenhorsti, Aradus kotashevichi, Aradus lativentris, Aradus leptosomus, Aradus macrosomus, Aradus madagascariensis, Aradus penteneuros, Aradus popovi, Aradus rotundiventris, Aradus superstes, Aradus velteni, Aradus voigti, Aradus weitschati

Type specimen: PIN 3559/7669, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559)

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