Cardiophorus lithographus Wickham 1916 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1916. The fossil Elateridae of Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 60(12):493-527

Belongs to Cardiophorus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Wickham 1916

Sister taxa: Cardiophorus braunii, Cardiophorus cockerelli, Cardiophorus deprivatus, Cardiophorus exhumatus, Cardiophorus florissantensis, Cardiophorus inclusus, Cardiophorus requiescens, Cardiophorus yatsenkokhmelevskyi

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:

• Eocene of United States (4: Colorado collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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