Curculioides scaber Scudder 1890 (hooded tickspider)

Arachnida - Ricinulei - Curculioididae

Alternative combination: Geratarbus scabrum

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. Illustrations of the Carboniferous Arachnida of North America, of the orders Anthracomarti and Pedipalpi. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4:443-456

Belongs to Curculioides according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Petrunkevitch 1913, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953, Scudder 1890 and Selden 1992

Sister taxa: Curculioides adompha, Curculioides ansticii, Curculioides bohemondi, Curculioides eltringhami, Curculioides gigas, Curculioides granulatus, Curculioides mcluckiei, Curculioides pococki

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection

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