Macropunctum rossi Alexeev 2019 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 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 Macropunctum according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Alexeev 2019

Sister taxa: Macropunctum angulosum, Macropunctum angulosum, Macropunctum angustiscutellum, Macropunctum densipunctum, Macropunctum eckfeldi, Macropunctum eocaenicum, Macropunctum latiscutellum, Macropunctum messelense, Macropunctum meunieri, Macropunctum minutum, Macropunctum promptum, Macropunctum rebugense, Macropunctum senckenbergi

Type specimen: NHMUK I.10085, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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