Aphrastomedes
| Aphrastomedes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Velocipedidae |
| Genus: | †Aphrastomedes Yamada & Yamamoto, 2018 |
| Species: | †A. anthocoroides
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| †Aphrastomedes anthocoroides Yamada & Yamamoto, 2018
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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
[edit]It probably belongs to the family Velocipedidae; if so, it is the first amber fossil known of this family.[1]
Biology
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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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