Abstract
True bugs (Heteroptera) are uncommon in the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of southern England, being represented by occasional terrestrial and aquatic forms (Jarzembowski, 2011). None have been formally described, but a giant water bug (belostomatid) and a saucer bug (naucorid) have been figured from the Weald Clay Formation (Jarzembowski & Coram, 1997: fig. 10; Austen et al., 2011: fig. 5, respectively). The former was considered closely allied to a stygeonepine from the Las Hoyas Konservat-Lagerstätte in eastern Spain and was subsequently reconstructed as Iberonepa sp. (Jarzembowski & Jarzembowski, 2019: fig. 3). Here we report two new nepomorphs, a patterned creeping water bug (naucorid) from the lower Weald Clay and the first Wealden toad bug, adding an ochteroid to the palaeoentomofauna—the largest and oldest gelastocorid known to date.