Insecta - Hemiptera - Thaumastocoridae
Alternative combination: Xylastodoris gerdae
Full reference: G. Bechly and M. Wittmann. 2000. Two new tropical bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae – Xylastodorinae and Hypsipterygidae) from Baltic amber. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 289:1-11
Belongs to Proxylastodoris according to E. Heiss and V. B. Golub 2015
See also Bechly and Wittmann 2000 and Heiss and Popov 2002
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMNS BB-2368, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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