Bruchus exhumatus Wickham 1912 (leaf beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(3):3-38

Belongs to Bruchus according to H. F. Wickham 1914

See also Wickham 1912 and Wickham 1913

Sister taxa: Bruchus aboriginalis, Bruchus anilis, Bruchus antaeus, Bruchus bituminosus, Bruchus bowditchi, Bruchus carpophiloides, Bruchus crassus, Bruchus decrepitus, Bruchus dormescens, Bruchus henshawi, Bruchus osborni, Bruchus pisi, Bruchus striolatus, Bruchus succintus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant (Cockerell Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (4: Colorado collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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