Aphrastomedes Yamada and Yamamoto 2017 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Velocipedidae

Full reference: K. Yamada and S. Yamamoto. 2017. Taxonomic names, in Aphrastomedes anthocoroides, a remarkable new cimicomorphan genus and species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 84:442-450

Parent taxon: Velocipedidae according to K. Yamada and S. Yamamoto 2017

Sister taxon: Darniopseini

Subtaxa: Aphrastomedes anthocoroides

View classification

Type: Aphrastomedes anthocoroides

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.