†Stygeonepa foersteri Popov 1971 (giant water bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1971. Historical development of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 129:1-228
Belongs to Stygeonepa according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1992
See also Popov 1971
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 1952/183, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Solnhofen (PIN collection 1952), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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