†Hylastes americanus Wickham 1913 (bark beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado. Bulletins from the Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(4):3-29
Belongs to Hylastes according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Wickham 1913 and Wood and Bright 1992
Sister taxa: Hylastes aterites, Hylastes gracilis, Hylastes nigrinus, Hylastes perkovskyi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Wilson Ranch, Florissant
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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