Scirtes wightensis Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2019 (marsh beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and 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 Scirtes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. G. Ponomarenko 2019

Sister taxa: Eohelodites, Scirtes calcariferens, Scirtes circumcisus, Scirtes khnzoryani, Scirtes metepisternalis, Scirtes orbiculatus

Type specimen: IWCMS 2018.42, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Thorness Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (IWCMS coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bembridge Marls 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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