Curculioides mcluckiei Selden 1992 (hooded tickspider)

Arachnida - Ricinulei - Curculioididae

Full reference: P. A. Selden. 1992. Revision of the fossil ricinuleids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 83:595-634

Belongs to Curculioides according to P. A. Selden 1992

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

Type specimen: USNM 440519, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Coal City-Braidwood strip mines (McLuckie coll), which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1 collection), United States (2: Illinois)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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