identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03DE87E8FF93FFB8FF65FA19FEFFED17.text	03DE87E8FF93FFB8FF65FA19FEFFED17.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aradus superstes Germar & Berendt 1856	<div><p>Aradus superstes Germar &amp; Berendt, 1856</p><p>(Figs 1, 2)</p><p>Material. Specimen number NIGP 209778. Macropterous female from Baltic amber, deposited in the collections of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), Nanjing, China.</p><p>Diagnosis. As given by Heiss, 1998.</p><p>Description. Macropterous female (Fig. 1A–C), 6540 μm long and 3377 μm large. Body and legs with fine granulation; antennae densely covered with tubercles bearing setae. Color gray-brown with irregular lighter areas and a paler membrane.</p><p>Head</p><p>1099 μm long and 1304 μm (Fig. 2A). Antenna four-segmented, 2037 μm long, with antennal segment II longest; antennal segments’ lengths: I: 242, II: 801, III: 547, IV: 447. Antennal tubercles distally pointed. Eyes large, spherical, projecting laterally (Fig. 2A). Vertex with U-shaped transverse depression. Rostrum four-segmented, slightly surpassing prosternum.</p><p>Pronotum</p><p>More than twice as wide as long in the middle, 939 μm long and 2244 μm large (Fig 2B). Lateral margins broadly rounded and distally converging, strongly and irregularly dentate. With four longitudinal carinae, middle two developed throughout their entire length and approaching one another in an X-shape; lateral carinae expanded only from proximal margin to transverse furrow of pronotum. Shoulders bulged with a short longitudinal ridge. Proximal margin medially slightly indented, laterally rounded.</p><p>Scutellum</p><p>Triangular, 1432 μm long. Lateral margins raised like ridges, slightly indented medially, converging toward narrowly rounded apex (Fig. 2B). Surface in basal third slightly elevated and coarsely granulated, otherwise transversely wrinkled.</p><p>Hemelytra</p><p>4020 μm long and 1391 μm large (Fig. 2C). Corium in basal third broadly rounded with finely dentate lateral margin; distal angle reaching to one-third of dorsal laterotergite VI. Surface with pronounced longitudinal and transverse venation. Crossvein m–cu distal to the a–cu crossvein. Membrane with four longitudinal veins; two middle ones (cubitus and media) unite distally in a curved arch, forming a closed cell. Surface wrinkled.</p><p>Abdomen</p><p>3377 μm broad. Lateral margins of visible laterotergite III–VI evenly rounded, not protruding; VII slightly protruding and distally narrowly rounded. Ventrally with median longitudinal furrow. Female terminalia invisible under “cloudy” layer.</p><p>Legs</p><p>Slender; femora tapered proximally and distally; trochanter of pro- and mesofemora fused, but with a seam separating the metafemoral trochanter. Tibiae cylindrical, slender. Tarsi 2-segmented, with long, distally curved pretarsal claws.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE87E8FF93FFB8FF65FA19FEFFED17	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Azar, Dany	Azar, Dany (2025): Description of the female of Aradus superstes Germar & Berendt, 1856 from the Eocene Baltic amber (Hemiptera: Aradidae). Zootaxa 5739 (1): 8-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.4
