Brevrimatus, Zhang, Weiting, Yao, Yunzhi & Ren, Dong, 2011

Zhang, Weiting, Yao, Yunzhi & Ren, Dong, 2011, New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with phylogenetic analyses, ZooKeys 130, pp. 185-198 : 187

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1563

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Brevrimatus
status

gen. n.

Brevrimatus   ZBK gen. n.

Type species.

Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Body ovate, moderate in size, macropterous. Head relatively short. Rostrum reaching to the base of hind coxae. Corium with large pale spots, medial fracture short, costal fracture of hemelytra very long, hypocostal ridge and associated secondary hypocostal ridge present on hemelytra, membrane with five closed cells. Posterior margin of female sternum VII concave along the midline. Base of ovipositor exposed.

Etymology.

The generic name is a combination of the Latin prefix “brev-” (short) and Latin word “rimatus” (fracture), which indicated the genus with short medial fracture. Gender masculine.

Distribution.

China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Saldidae