Paleoploiariola venosa Maldonado Capriles et al. 1993 (thread-legged bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae

Full reference: J. Maldonado Capriles, J. A. Santiago-Blay, and G. O. Poinar. 1993. Paleoploiariola venosa, a new fossil Emesinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) genus and species from Dominican amber. Journal of the Agricultural University of Puerto Rico 77:95-100

Belongs to Paleoploiariola according to J. Maldonado Capriles et al. 1993

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar HE 4-23, 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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