†Lapidostenus insignis Dolin 1980 (click beetle)
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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 Lapidostenus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Dolin 1980
Sister taxa: Lapidostenus infossus, Lapidostenus longicornis, Lapidostenus scutellaris, Lapidostenus tarbinskyi
Type specimen: PIN 2784/1379, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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