Paleodoris lattini Poinar and Santiago-Blay 1997 (palm bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Thaumastocoridae

Full reference: G. O. Poinar and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 1997. Paleodoris lattini gen. n., sp. n., a fossil palm bug (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae, Xylastodorinae) in Dominican amber, with habits discernible by comparative functional morphology. Entomologica Scandinavica 28:307-310

Belongs to Paleodoris according to E. Heiss and V. B. Golub 2015

See also Poinar and Santiago-Blay 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar H-4-49, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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