Phloeosinus squalidens Scudder 1890 (bark beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Hylastes squalidens

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Phloeosinus according to S. L. Wood and D. E. Bright 1992

See also Hopkins 1900, Scudder 1890, Scudder 1893 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxa: Phloeosinus assimilis, Phloeosinus brunni, Phloeosinus keeni, Phloeosinus pini, Phloeosinus regimontanus, Phloeosinus rehi, Phloeosinus robustus, Phloeosinus scopulorum, Phloeosinus sexspinosus, Phloeosinus tuberculifer, Phloeosinus wolffi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Scarborough Bluffs (Hinde collection), which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine deltaic siltstone in the Scarborough Formation of Canada

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Scarborough Bluffs (Hinde collection)

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