Grimaldinia Popov and Heiss 2014 (velvety shore bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Ochteridae

Full reference: Y. A. Popov and E. Heiss. 2014. Grimaldinia pronotalis n. gen., n. sp. from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Leptopodidae, Leptosaldinae). Zootaxa 3878:444-450

Parent taxon: Ochteridae according to M. Zhang et al. 2022

See also Kment et al. 2020 and Popov and Heiss 2014

Sister taxa: Angulochterus, Arcochterus, Floricaudus, Parvochterus, Pristinochterus, Riegerochterus, Yuripachys

Subtaxa: Grimaldinia pronotalis

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Type: Grimaldinia pronotalis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Heiss Tiroler Landesmuseum coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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