Cistelites spectabilis Heer 1869 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Full reference: O. Heer. 1869. Contributions to the fossil flora of north Greenland, being a description of the plants collected by Mr. Edward Whymper during the summer of 1867. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 159:445-488

Belongs to Cistelites according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

See also Heer 1869 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Cistelites insignis, Cistelites longipes, Cistelites minor, Cistelites punctulatus, Cistelites sachalinensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Zurich collection)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.