Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative combination: Bledius morsei
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1900. Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North America. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 40:1-148
Belongs to Stenus according to L. H. Herman 2001
See also Cai et al. 2016, Scudder 1900 and Wickham 1913
Sister taxa: Stenus (Hemistenus), Stenus (Nestus), Stenus (Tesnus), Stenus abraham, Stenus archetypus, Stenus atavus, Stenus avus, Stenus biguttatus, Stenus brunnipes, Stenus comma, Stenus groehni, Stenus gypsi, Stenus juno, Stenus ketura, Stenus methusalem, Stenus noach, Stenus ornatus, Stenus pinguis, Stenus prodromus, Stenus scribai, Stenus scrupeus, Stenus sordidus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: Colorado collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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