Gonodera vulcanica Wickham 1914 (comb-clawed beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combination: Cistela vulcanica

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1914. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53:423-494

Belongs to Gonodera according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Wickham 1914

Sister taxa: Gonodera antiqua, Gonodera baygushevae

Type specimen: MCZ 2680/1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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