Scirtes circumcisus Kirejtshuk and Nel 2013 (marsh beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel. 2013. Current knowledge of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the lowermost Eocene Oise amber. Insect Systematics & Evolution 44:175-201

Belongs to Scirtes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel 2013

Sister taxa: Eohelodites, Scirtes calcariferens, Scirtes khnzoryani, Scirtes metepisternalis, Scirtes orbiculatus, Scirtes wightensis

Type specimen: MNHN 7448, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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