†Aphrastomedes anthocoroides Yamada and Yamamoto 2017 (true bug)
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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
Belongs to Aphrastomedes according to K. Yamada and S. Yamamoto 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SY14, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)
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