Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae
Full reference: E. Heiss. 2014. Revision of the flat bug family Aradidae from Baltic Amber IX. Aradus macrosomus sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 61:27-29
Belongs to Aradus according to E. Heiss 2014
Sister taxa: Aradus andancensis, Aradus antediluvianus, Aradus assimilis, Aradus balticus, Aradus consimilis, Aradus creticus, Aradus damzeni, Aradus frater, Aradus frateroides, Aradus goellnerae, Aradus grabenhorsti, Aradus kotashevichi, Aradus lativentris, Aradus leptosomus, Aradus madagascariensis, Aradus nicholasi, Aradus penteneuros, Aradus popovi, Aradus rotundiventris, Aradus superstes, Aradus velteni, Aradus voigti, Aradus weitschati
Type specimen: Tiroler Landesmuseum He-BB-Ar-40, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Heiss coll, Tiroler Landesmuseum), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Heiss coll, Tiroler Landesmuseum)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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