Hylesinus hydropicus Wickham 1916 (bark beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Adipocephalus hydropicus

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1916. New fossil Coleoptera from the Florissant beds. Bulletins from the Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 7(3):3-20

Belongs to Hylesinus according to A. A. Legalov 2022

See also Legalov 2015, Petrov and Zherikhin 2004, Wickham 1916, Wood 1992 and Wood and Bright 1992

Sister taxa: Hylesinus (Hylesinus), Hylesinus crenatus, Hylesinus dormiscens, Hylesinus extractus, Hylesinus facilis, Hylesinus neli, Hylesinus toranio, Hylesinus varius

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

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