Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Full reference: A. S. Kurochkin and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 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 Plateumaris (Plateumaris) according to A. S. Kurochkin and A. G. Kirejtshuk 2019
Sister taxon: Plateumaris (Plateumaris) wightensis
Type specimen: NHMUK In.25763, an exoskeleton. 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: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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