Microrhagus fossilis Wickham 1916 (false click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Eucnemidae

Alternative combination: Deltometopus fossilis

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1916. The fossil Elateridae of Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 60(12):493-527

Belongs to Microrhagus according to J. Muona 1993

See also Wickham 1916

Sister taxa: Microrhagus (Emyirhagus), Microrhagus miocenicus, Microrhagus vulcanicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14

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