Plateumaris primaeva Wickham 1912 (reed leaf beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Alternative combination: Donacia primaeva

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 Plateumaris according to I. S. Askevold 1990

See also Goecke 1961, Wickham 1912 and Wickham 1914

Sister taxa: Plateumaris (Necrodexis), Plateumaris (Plateumaris), Plateumaris affinis, Plateumaris constricticollis, Plateumaris dorsata, Plateumaris dubia, Plateumaris fallax, Plateumaris flavipes, Plateumaris germari, Plateumaris kinugasana, Plateumaris neomexicana, Plateumaris nitida, Plateumaris pusilla, Plateumaris sericea, Plateumaris virens, Plateumaris weisei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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