Hypnomorphoides catachtonius Dolin 1980 (click beetle)

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 Hypnomorphoides according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Dolin 1980 and Kundrata et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Hypnomorphoides angularis, Hypnomorphoides latus, Hypnomorphoides procerulus

Type specimen: PIN 2066/3062, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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