Sinoelaterium melanocolor Ping 1928 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: C. Ping. 1928. Study of the Cretaceous fossil insects of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 13:5-57

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

See also Kundrata et al. 2020 and Ping 1928

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Cat. No. 2132, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Locality 228, Peipiao, Jehol, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large shale in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Locality 228, Peipiao, Jehol

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