†Homalota recisa Scudder 1890 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734
Belongs to Homalota according to S. Yamamoto et al. 2016
See also Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1900
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Packard 78, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Green River (Packard Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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