Wasp mimicry among Palaeocene reduviid bug from Svalbard

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110202.html The enigmatic Svalbard Palaeocene fossil taxon Hymenopterites deperditus is revised, and is neither a wasp nor a plant seed, but turns out to be a bug hemelytra corresponding...

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Published in:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Main Authors: Wappler, Torsten, Garrouste, Romain, Engel, Michael S., Nel, André
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Paleobiologii 2014
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Svalbard
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14424
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0202
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Summary:This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110202.html The enigmatic Svalbard Palaeocene fossil taxon Hymenopterites deperditus is revised, and is neither a wasp nor a plant seed, but turns out to be a bug hemelytra corresponding to the oldest described reduviid bug. It can be attributable to the “emesine−saicine clade”. The presence in the Svalbard Palaeocene of this insectivorous bug, showing possible mimicry of a wasp model, confirms the presence of diverse entomofauna and of rather warm palaeoclimatic conditions.

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