Artinama qinghuoensis Lin 1986 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Alternative combination: Artinama qinghuanensis

Full reference: Q. B. Lin. 1986. Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 170:1-112

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

See also Dong et al. 2011, Kundrata et al. 2020, Lin 1986, Muona et al. 2020 and Ponomarenko et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 70064, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is KHG 100, Shijiaba section, Wenjiashi, Liuyang City, which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial mudstone in the Zaoshang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at KHG 100, Shijiaba section, Wenjiashi, Liuyang City

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