Telmatrechus parallelus Scudder 1890 (water strider)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Gerridae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Telmatrechus according to N. M. Andersen 1998

See also Nel and Paicheler 1993 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Telmatrechus defunctus, Telmatrechus stali

Type specimen: 14601, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bluffs at head of Twin Creek (Peale collection), which is in a Wasatchian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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