@article{846faa1a329f46bca272ba3ecbae325f,
title = "A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado",
abstract = "We describe a new Eocene fossil assassin bug, Aphelicophontes danjuddi gen. et sp. nov. (Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), from the Green River Formation of Colorado. The specimens informing this description are extraordinarily preserved, particularly in the external and internal structures of the adult male genitalia. We discuss implications of the new species for the systematics and evolutionary history of the group, as well as the strength of phylogenetic signal in harpactorine genitalia.",
keywords = "fossil, new species, taxonomy, systematics, Eocene, Reduviidae",
author = "Swanson, {Daniel R.} and Heads, {Sam W.} and Taylor, {Steven J.} and Yinan Wang",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Daniel Judd for the donation of the counterpart of the holotype described herein to the INHS Paleontology Collection. We acknowledge M. Jared Thomas (INHS, Heads lab) for his technical and photographical assistance. We also thank those curators and collections managers who provided images of fossil type material for comparison: Talia Karim (University of Colorado Museum, University of Colorado), Claire Mellish (Natural History Museum, London), and Ricardo Perez‐de la Fuente (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University). For loans of extant material to the first author and the permission to dissect specimens within that material, we thank the collection managers, Chris Grinter (INHS) and Mark O'Brien (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology). The first author also thanks Christiane Weirauch (University of California, Riverside) for various discussions involving reduviid systematics. This study comprises the first chapter of the first author's Master's thesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. Partial support was provided by NSF grant EF1304622 (to SWH). We thank Wei Song Hwang and two other, anonymous, referees for their comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1002/spp2.1349",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
pages = "1459--1478",
journal = "Papers in Palaeontology",
issn = "2056-2799",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
number = "3",
}