Helophorus (Mesosperchus) Ponomarenko 1977 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Helophoridae

Alternative spelling: Mesosperchus

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119

Parent taxon: Helophorus according to A. G. Ponomarenko 2014

See also Carpenter 1992, Fikáček et al. 2012, Ponomarenko 1977, Ponomarenko 1985 and Ponomarenko 1992

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Helophorus (Mesosperchus) costalis Helophorus (Mesosperchus) gracilis Helophorus (Mesosperchus) inceptivus Helophorus (Mesosperchus) tarsalis Helophorus (Mesosperchus) yixianus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (3)

• Jurassic of Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (7)

Total: 14 collections including 17 occurrences

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