Curculioides ansticii Buckland 1837 (hooded tickspider)

Arachnida - Ricinulei - Curculioididae

Alternative combination: Hevila ansticii

Full reference: W. Buckland. 1837. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise IV. Geology and Mineralogy with Reference to Natural Theology 2:1-131

Belongs to Curculioides according to P. A. Selden 1992

See also Buckland 1837, Giebel 1856, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953, Pocock 1911, Scudder 1881 and Scudder 1883

Sister taxa: Curculioides adompha, Curculioides bohemondi, Curculioides eltringhami, Curculioides gigas, Curculioides granulatus, Curculioides mcluckiei, Curculioides pococki, Curculioides scaber

Type specimen: BMNH In. 49323, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Coalbrook Dale (Pennystone Measures, Anstice collection), which is in a Westphalian C interdistributary bay mudstone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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