HETEROCLEPTINAE
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SUBFAMILY HETEROCLEPTINAE View in CoL
This subfamily can be easily separated from Hydrometrinae by much shorter body (length 3 mm). Included genera are Heterocleptes and Veliometra . The latter is found in Brazil. Heterocleptes is a primitive genus; originally with 3 species known only from Africa, but a fourth species, H. spinosus ( Fig. 1 View Fig ) was reported from Sabah by Andersen (1982b). Recently, Andersen and Grimaldi (2001) described a new fossil hydrometrid, Carinametra burmensis from a mid- Cretaceous Burmese amber (100-90 Ma) from north of Myanmar. They placed the genus in Heterocleptinae and suggested that this subfamily has been more widely distributed in the past.
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