Aphrastomedes

Aphrastomedes
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Velocipedidae
Genus: †
Yamada & Yamamoto, 2018
Species:
†A. anthocoroides
Binomial name
†Aphrastomedes anthocoroides
Yamada & Yamamoto, 2018

Aphrastomedes is an extinct genus of cimicomorphan true bug in the order Heteroptera. It contains a single species, Aphrastomedes anthocoroides, known from two specimens found in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber.[1]

Classification

It probably belongs to the family Velocipedidae; if so, it is the first amber fossil known of this family.[1]

Biology

The known male specimen of Aphrastomedes features small white Acari on the ventral surface of thorax and abdomen, hinting at an association with phoretic mites shared with living Velocipedidae.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Kazutaka Yamada; Shûhei Yamamoto; Yui Takahashi (2018). "Aphrastomedes anthocoroides, a remarkable new cimicomorphan genus and species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 442–450. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84..442Y. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.007.


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