Description

Flexicorpus acutirostratus
Insect
Early Cretaceous
Yixian Formation
Huangbanjigou, near Chaomidian Village, Liaoning Province, China

10mm blood-sucking hemipteran insect on 57mm matrix.

Flexicorpus is a genus of insect of the Order Hemiptera, the true bugs. So far, it’s known only from the Early Cretaceous of China. It’s claim to fame is that it’s been interpreted as the earliest-known blood-feeding bug in the fossil record.

Nice body with antenna and legs showing. Unusual.

Who knows what kind of weird dinosaur or multituberculate disease it might have transmitted back then.