Prosthoblissus Boderau et al. 2025 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Blissidae

Full reference: M. Boderau, A. Nel, and M. S. Engel. 2025. The earliest chinch bug (Hemiptera, Blissidae): a new genus from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Zoosystema 47:133-138

Parent taxon: Blissidae according to M. Boderau et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Eoblissus, Ischnodemus

Subtaxa: Prosthoblissus primigenius

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Type: Prosthoblissus primigenius

Ecology:

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

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