Spercheus wightensis Ponomarenko 2019 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Spercheidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 2019. Taxonomic names, in The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:405-492

Belongs to Spercheus according to A. G. Ponomarenko 2019

Sister taxon: Spercheus punctatus

Type specimen: NHMUK In.25625, an elytra. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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