Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Full reference: M. Hayashi. 1999. Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene donaciine fossils from the Uonuma Formation in Higashikubiki hills, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae). Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 53:1-22
Belongs to Plateumaris according to M. Hayashi 1999
Sister taxa: Plateumaris (Necrodexis), Plateumaris (Plateumaris), Plateumaris affinis, Plateumaris constricticollis, Plateumaris dorsata, Plateumaris dubia, Plateumaris fallax, Plateumaris flavipes, Plateumaris germari, Plateumaris kinugasana, Plateumaris neomexicana, Plateumaris nitida, Plateumaris primaeva, Plateumaris pusilla, Plateumaris sericea, Plateumaris weisei
Type specimen: OMNH-TI-97, an exoskeleton (pronotum and elytra). Its type locality is Osb6, Shibanomata River, Oguni area, which is in a Calabrian terrestrial sandstone in the Uonuma Formation of Japan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Osb6, Shibanomata River, Oguni area
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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