Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae

Alternative combinations: Docirhynchus ibis, Pseudomesauletes ibis

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(3):3-38

Belongs to Pseudomesauletes (Pseudomesauletes) according to A. Bukejs and A. A. Legalov 2019

See also Legalov 2015, Poinar and Legalov 2015 and Wickham 1912

Sister taxa: Pseudomesauletes (Pseudomesauletes) culex, Pseudomesauletes (Pseudomesauletes) groehni, Pseudomesauletes (Pseudomesauletes) lobanovi

Type specimen: UCM IP 8186, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (Cockerell Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (Cockerell Collection)

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