Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Alternative combination: Calathus elpis
Full reference: V. M. Ortuño and A. Arillo. 2009. Fossil carabids from Baltic amber – I – A new species of the genus Calathus Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae). Zootaxa 2239:55-61
Belongs to Quasicalathus according to J. Schmidt and K. Will 2022
See also Ortuño and Arillo 2009
Sister taxa: Quasicalathus agonicollis, Quasicalathus conservans
Type specimen: MCNA 13638, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, MCNA collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (5)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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