Carabus ovalus Hong and Wang 1986 (ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Full reference: Y. C. Hong and W. L. Wang. 1986. Miocene Coleoptera (Insecta) of Shanwang, Shandong Province, China. Memoirs of Beijing Natural History Museum 38:1-19

Belongs to Carabus according to Y. C. Hong and W. L. Wang 1986

Sister taxa: Carabus (Apotomopterus), Carabus (Archicarabus), Carabus (Aulonocarabus), Carabus (Damaster), Carabus (Hemicarabus), Carabus (Homoeocarabus), Carabus (Megadontus), Carabus (Melancarabus), Carabus (Ohomopterus), Carabus (Tachypus), Carabus (Tanaocarabus), Carabus agassizi, Carabus clathratus, Carabus clatratus, Carabus foveolatus, Carabus granulatus, Carabus hortensis, Carabus jeffersoni, Carabus kollari, Carabus maderae, Carabus maeandroides, Carabus mecothoracus, Carabus neli, Carabus novalensis, Carabus praearvensis, Carabus vietinghoffii

Type specimen: Beijing Natural History Museum 80192, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum)

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