Metrorhynchites angustum Tillyard 1918 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Schizocoleidae

Alternative combination: Elateridium angustum

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:720-756

Belongs to Metrorhynchites according to A. G. Ponomarenko 2011

Sister taxa: Metrorhynchites angustior, Metrorhynchites angustus, Metrorhynchites baculum, Metrorhynchites dilutes, Metrorhynchites dunstani, Metrorhynchites elongatus, Metrorhynchites grandis, Metrorhynchites longus, Metrorhynchites putativus, Metrorhynchites sydneiensis

Type specimen: AM F. 39328, an elytra. Its type locality is Glenlee railway cutting, which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian pond shale in the Ashfield Shales Formation of Australia.

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Metrorhynchites angustum in the database

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