Insecta - Hemiptera - Hydrometridae
Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1996. Water measurers from the Baltic amber (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Hydrometridae). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 79:211-221
Belongs to Metrocephala according to R. V. Pêgas et al. 2017
See also Andersen 1998, Andersen 2000 and Popov 1996
Sister taxon: Metrocephala schaeferi
Type specimen: GPIH 3750, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Scheele collection, University of Hamburg, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (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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