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<emphasis id="B3F5997DFFE37E2FABCB2490FE5202FE" bold="true" box="[178,457,216,238]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="532">Thaumastotingis areolatus</emphasis>
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: Male, preserved in an elongate piece of Baltic Amber (25x8x 
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), dorsal and ventral side visible, an air bubble obscures partly the apex of genital segment. Antennae complete, bent ventrally, legs partly displaced. This specimen is designated as 
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and will be deposited in 
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as: &quot; 
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: Female, Baltic Amber inclusion embedded in a block of artificial resin (11x17x 
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), dorsal and ventral side visible, antennae and legs complete, the latter bent ventrally. This specimen shares all characters of the 
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. Deposited in 
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D e s c r i p t i o n: 
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male, submacropterous. Body oval, elongate, 2.56 x as long as wide; surface of hemelytra covered by areolae of oval, pentagonal and hexagonal shape; costal area of hemelytra with subrectangular areolae. Coloration of pronotum and hemelytra brown, head darker brown.
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<paragraph id="813E456FFFE37E2FABCB2614FD170190" blockId="3.[178,1086,604,896]" pageId="3" pageNumber="532">H e a d: Short and wide, width across eyes about 1.58 x as wide as length of head (19/12); preocular part rather short. Dorsal side without visible spines or tubercles. Bucculae (juga) with lateral margins parallel and slightly widening posteriorly, separated by wide truncate clypeus, its apex not exceeding. Antenniferous lobes small and subacute. Antennae 4-segmented. The first segment is rather thick, except the base; the second and third segments are thin, especially the third one; fourth segment fusiform, thicker than the second and third segments, but thinner than the first one; the third segment and the base of the fourth segment with minute tubercles bearing very fine hairs. Eyes of oval outline and laterally produced, their inner margins are not clearly visible. Postocular lobes short, converging posteriorly.</paragraph>
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e n t e r: Apex of labium reaching posterior margin of middle coxa. Lateral margins of abdomen delimited by hypocostal lamina, which shows one row of areolae (although not always clearly visible). Pregenital abdominal segments symmetrical and without particular modifications to accommodate the ninth segment or pygophore. The latter is clearly asymmetric, turned and apically opened to the left side, rather elongate and narrow. Parameres paired, hook-like, with thickened base and obtuse apex.
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<emphasis id="B3F5997DFFE47E28ABCB21F6FE9F07C3" bold="true" box="[178,260,1470,1492]" pageId="4" pageNumber="533">Figs 1-3</emphasis>
: Holotype male of 
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) dorsal view, (
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) ventral view; (
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) terminal segments ventral view.
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<emphasis id="B3F5997DFFE57E29ABCB218AFE9307C7" bold="true" box="[178,264,1474,1496]" pageId="5" pageNumber="534">Figs. 4-6</emphasis>
: Paratype female of 
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: (
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) dorsal view, (
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) ventral view; (
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) terminal segments ventral view.
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<paragraph id="813E456FFFE67E2AABCB2493FDF70358" blockId="6.[178,1086,219,329]" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">L e g s: Femora and tibiae cylindrical, the former moderately thickened at middle, the latter with some stiff bristles. Tarsi 3-segmented. Two first tarsal segments short and thin, the third one rather thick, equal in length to the first two segments taken together. Claws with large oval pulvilli (arolia auct.).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="813E456FFFE67E2AABCB2510FF71039B" blockId="6.[178,1085,344,395]" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">F e m a l e: Shares all structural characters of male; body more stout, 2.35 x as long as wide.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="813E456FFFE67E2AABCB25D2FDFE03DE" blockId="6.[178,1085,410,462]" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">Ventral pregenital segments with larger sternite VII, sternite VIII seemingly split into two plates and narrow sternite IX exposed.</paragraph>
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M e a s u r e m e n t s (in mm): The first figure refers to the male 
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, the second to the female 
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. Body length 2.50-2.65; abdomen width 
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; head length 0.3-0.275; head width 
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<paragraph id="813E456FFFE67E2AABCB26DAFBA500B7" blockId="6.[178,1086,657,679]" box="[178,1086,657,679]" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">E t y m o l o g y: Named after the unusual areolate structure of pronotum and abdomen.</paragraph>
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D i s c u s s i o n: Distinguished from Eocene Baltic Amber taxon 
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by elongate, subparallel habitus (egg-shaped); surface with large Tingidae-like cells (finely punctate); shorter rostrum reaching middle of mesosternum (longer, reaching posterior border of metasternum); antenniferous lobes small but distinct (lacking); claval suture about 2.5x as long as scutellum (slightly longer than scutellum); membrane areolate (not sclertotized). The second known Eocene Amber species is 
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<emphasis id="B3F5997DFFE67E2AAA66272BFD930168" box="[287,520,867,888]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">Protodoris minusculus</emphasis>
NEL
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et.al 2004 described from Le Quesnoy amber in 
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, which is at once distinguished by much wider and sinuate paranota and the lack of pulvilli.
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D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d E c o l o g y: This is the second known representative of 
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from Baltic Amber. Few recent records of the introduced alien Australian Eucalyptus pest 
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<emphasis id="B3F5997DFFE67E2AAAB027B3FD440601" box="[457,735,1019,1041]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">Thaumastocoris peregrinus</emphasis>
CARPINTERO &amp; DALLAPÉ, 2006
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to 
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(LAUDONIA &amp; 
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2012, 
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), 
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(
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) and to Sicily (
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) indicate its presence and expansion in Europe and hence the temperate Palaearctic Area. As all other extant species of this family are primarily recorded from palms (hence &quot;palm bug&quot;) in the Southern Hemisphere or are pests of Eucalyptus in 
<collectingCountry id="F99605FFFFE67E2AAA3A20C3FE3B06B1" box="[323,416,1163,1185]" name="Australia" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">Australia</collectingCountry>
and 
<collectingCountry id="F99605FFFFE67E2AAAAB20C3FDC206B1" box="[466,601,1163,1185]" name="New Zealand" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="E510389EFFE67E2AA91E20C3FCB906B0" author="CASSIS G &amp; SCHUH R" box="[615,802,1163,1185]" pageId="6" pageNumber="535" pagination="19 - 36" refId="ref3057" refString="CASSIS G., SCHUH R. T. &amp; H. BRAILOVSKY (1999): a review of Onymocoris (Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae), with a new species, and notes on hosts and distributions of another thaumastocorid species. - Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 63: 19 - 36." type="journal article" year="1999">CASSIS et al. 1999</bibRefCitation>
, 
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, 
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&amp; 
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2013) and 
<collectingCountry id="F99605FFFFE67E2AAAFE20E0FD9106AE" box="[391,522,1192,1214]" name="South Africa" pageId="6" pageNumber="535">South Africa</collectingCountry>
(
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&amp; 
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2005), it might be assumed that the subtropical climate and the flora of Eocene time offered similar conditions for the development of 
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in regions where Baltic and French Amber originated.
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