Pterostichus gurnetensis Cockerell 1921 (ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480

Belongs to Pterostichus according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1921

Sister taxa: Pterostichus (Argutor), Pterostichus (Bothriopterus), Pterostichus (Cryobius), Pterostichus (Eosteropus), Pterostichus (Hypherpes), Pterostichus (Lamenius), Pterostichus (Lenapterus), Pterostichus (Leptoferonia), Pterostichus (Melanius), Pterostichus (Metallophilus), Pterostichus (Phonias), Pterostichus (Pseudomaseus), Pterostichus (Steropus), Pterostichus abnormis, Pterostichus abrogatus, Pterostichus cancellatus, Pterostichus costatus, Pterostichus depletus, Pterostichus destitutus, Pterostichus destructus, Pterostichus distinctus, Pterostichus dormitans, Pterostichus fernquisti, Pterostichus fractus, Pterostichus gelidus, Pterostichus gracilis, Pterostichus laevigatus, Pterostichus melanarius, Pterostichus minor, Pterostichus minutulus, Pterostichus molestus, Pterostichus niger, Pterostichus nigrita, Pterostichus parens, Pterostichus pumpellyi, Pterostichus strenuus, Pterostichus stygicus, Pterostichus sublaevis, Pterostichus tundrae, Pterostichus vernalis, Pterostichus vetustus, Pterostichus walcotti

Type specimen: Hooley H.221, an elytra. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)

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