Comments : it is left to everybody to judge if Distant was well inspired to describe a new species from such a specimen, which stays up to now the only one known. However, he did place it in the Tessaratomidae because of "the exposed spiracles of the basal segment of abdomen". This fact could be due only to the immaturity of the specimen, the overall look of the specimen is much more like an ordinary Pentatomidae, especially for the shape and relative size of the head. The placement in Tessaratomidae is therefore quite questionable.

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