Elaterites microstictus Cockerell 1926 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1926. Some Tertiary fossil insects. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 18:313-324

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

See also Cockerell 1926

Sister taxa: Elaterites amissus, Elaterites bruchi, Elaterites dicrepidioides, Elaterites laconoides, Elaterites lavateri, Elaterites longus, Elaterites murchisoni, Elaterites obsoletus, Elaterites palaeophilus, Elaterites perditulus, Elaterites sculptilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Station 2; Sunchal, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small mudstone/limestone in the Margas Verdes Formation of Argentina

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Station 2; Sunchal

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