Karataviella macra Zhang 1986 (water boatman)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Corixidae

Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1986. Some fossil insects from the Jurassic of northern Hebei, China. The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Shandong 74-84

Belongs to Karataviella according to J. F. Zhang 1986

Sister taxa: Karataviella borzhensis, Karataviella brachyptera, Karataviella pontoforma, Karataviella popovi, Karataviella samkhakensis, Karataviella shandongensis, Karataviella stolida

Type specimen: Shandong Museum Z80996, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Jiulongshan Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection)

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