Carabites arapahoensis Cockerell 1918 (ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1918. New species of North American fossil beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:301-311

Belongs to Carabites according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1918

Sister taxa: Carabites anthracinus, Carabites capellinii, Carabites creta, Carabites cuneatus, Carabites dubius, Carabites ellipticus, Carabites eocenicus, Carabites exanimus, Carabites exilis, Carabites feildenianus, Carabites gardneri, Carabites geinitzi, Carabites harringtoni, Carabites islandicus, Carabites kincaidi, Carabites laesicollis, Carabites parallelus, Carabites peracutus, Carabites rugosus, Carabites russelli, Carabites schueli, Carabites scoticus, Carabites vitimensis

Type specimen: UCM 5822, an elytra. Its type locality is One mile west of Spencer, Arapahoe Pass Road, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Coalmont Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at One mile west of Spencer, Arapahoe Pass Road

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