Hypselosoma dominicana Poinar and Brown 2015 (jumping soil bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Schizopteridae

Full reference: G. Poinar and A. Brown. 2015. New genera and species of jumping ground bugs (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae) in Dominican and Burmese amber, with a description of a meloid (Coleoptera: Meloidae) triungulin on a Burmese specimen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50:372-381

Belongs to Hypselosoma according to G. Poinar and A. Brown 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar He-4-75A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll)

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