Cretaleptus Sun and Chen 2020 (spiny-legged bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Leptopodidae

Full reference: J. Sun and J. Chen. 2020. New material of shore bug subfamily Leptosaldinae in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from northern Myanmar (Heteroptera, Leptopodomorpha). Cretaceous Research 106(104205)

Parent taxon: Leptosaldinae according to J. Sun and J. Chen 2020

Sister taxa: Archaesalepta, Cretaceomira, Leptosalda, Macrolepta, Parvilepta, Palaeoleptus

Subtaxa: Cretaleptus popovi

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Type: Cretaleptus popovi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Linyi University LYU collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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