†Wuhua peregrina Bao et al. 2019 (tumbling flower beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae
Full reference: T. Bao, X. S. Zhang, K. S. Walczyńska, B. Wang, and J. Rust. 2019. Earliest mordellid-like beetles from the Jurassic of Kazakhstan and China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130:247-256
Belongs to Wuhua according to T. Bao et al. 2019
Sister taxon: Wuhua jurassica
Type specimen: NIGP154954, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection)
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