Elaterites lavateri Heer 1847 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229

Belongs to Elaterites according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Heer 1847 and Kundrata et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Elaterites amissus, Elaterites bruchi, Elaterites dicrepidioides, Elaterites laconoides, Elaterites longus, Elaterites microstictus, Elaterites murchisoni, Elaterites obsoletus, Elaterites palaeophilus, Elaterites perditulus, Elaterites sculptilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection)

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