Biology:Medocostes
Medocostes lestoni was found in the bark of dead trees and is thought to be predaceous. The generic name is an anagram of Scotomedes which is the type genus of the family Velocipedidae. The bug has a short head with ocelli. The labium has segment 4 elongated, as long as the second and third combined and the first segment is nearly absent. The mesepimeron and metepisternum are covered by the scent gland opening. The wing membrane has 3 long basal cells with many simple or bifurcating veins emerging from them. Initially Štys described a second species (Medocostes carayoni) in the genus but this was synonymized later.[1][2] Although placed within the Cimicomorpha, molecular phylogeny studies until 2008 have not examined the group.[3]
References
- ↑ Schuh, Randall T.; Slater, James A. (1995). True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Cornell University Press. pp. 184-186.
- ↑ Yamada, Kazutaka; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Takahashi, Yui (2018). "Aphrastomedes anthocoroides, a remarkable new cimicomorphan genus and species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber" (in en). Cretaceous Research 84: 442–450. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.007. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667117302355.
- ↑ Tian, Ying; Zhu, Weibing; Li, Min; Xie, Qiang; Bu, Wenjun (2008). "Influence of data conflict and molecular phylogeny of major clades in Cimicomorphan true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 581–597. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.034. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790308000389.
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