Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: V. G. Dolin. 1980. Fossil click-beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau. Fossil insects of the Mesozoic 17-81

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

See also Dolin 1980

Sister taxa: Hypnomorphus aemulus, Hypnomorphus angulosus, Hypnomorphus carpolithus, Hypnomorphus confusus, Hypnomorphus curtus, Hypnomorphus distinctus, Hypnomorphus dubius, Hypnomorphus imperspicuus, Hypnomorphus induratus, Hypnomorphus inventus, Hypnomorphus minutus, Hypnomorphus rasnitzyni, Hypnomorphus rohdendorfi

Type specimen: PIN 2997/4472, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2997), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2997)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.