Aradus superstes Germar and Berendt 1856 (flat bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae

Full reference: E. F. Germar and G. C. Berendt. 1856. Die im Bernstein befindlichen Hemipteren und Orthopteren der Vorwelt. Die in Bernstein Befindlichen Organischen Reste der Vorwelt Gesammelt in Verbindung mit Mehreren Bearbeitetet und Herausgegeben 2(1):1-40

Belongs to Aradus according to E. Heiss and D. Grimaldi 2001

See also Germar and Berendt 1856, Heiss 1998 and Scudder 1885

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 nicholasi, Aradus penteneuros, Aradus popovi, Aradus rotundiventris, Aradus velteni, Aradus voigti, Aradus weitschati

Type specimen: MfN MB.J.1883, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Berendt collection

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