Protogeocoris arcanus Kóbor et al. 2023 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Geocoridae

Full reference: P. Kóbor, E. I. Faúndez, and M. Roca-Cusachs. 2023. The revision of fossil big-eyed bugs suggests a peculiar evolutionary history of a peculiar true bug family (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103:531-543

Belongs to Protogeocoris according to P. Kóbor et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PCIP 0003, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (PCIP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (PCIP collection)

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