Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5:455-463

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

See also Cockerell 1920

Sister taxa: Elaterites amissus, Elaterites bruchi, Elaterites dicrepidioides, Elaterites laconoides, Elaterites lavateri, Elaterites longus, Elaterites microstictus, Elaterites murchisoni, Elaterites obsoletus, Elaterites perditulus, Elaterites sculptilis

Type specimen: BMNH 1467, an elytra. Its type locality is Peckham (Caleb Evans coll), which is in a Ypresian estuary/bay claystone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peckham (Caleb Evans coll)

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