Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae
Alternative combination: Liassocupes maculatus
Full reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 39(3):107-189
Belongs to Brochocoleus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016, Ponomarenko 2006 and Whalley 1985
Sister taxa: Brochocoleus alatus, Brochocoleus cossyphus, Brochocoleus keenani, Brochocoleus maximus, Brochocoleus planus, Brochocoleus punctatus, Brochocoleus rostratus, Brochocoleus sacheonensis, Brochocoleus sonidensis, Brochocoleus tobini
Type specimen: BMNH In 49577, an exoskeleton (missing head and pronotum ). Its type locality is Flatstones, Stonebarrow, Charmouth (Jackson collection), which is in an Obtusum marine mudstone in the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Flatstones, Stonebarrow, Charmouth (Jackson collection)
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