Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734
Belongs to Lygaeus according to S. H. Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Lygaeus atavinus, Lygaeus celasensis, Lygaeus dasypus, Lygaeus daulus, Lygaeus deprehensus, Lygaeus deucalionis, Lygaeus elongatiabdominalis, Lygaeus fossitius, Lygaeus gracilentus, Lygaeus gratiosus, Lygaeus mutilus, Lygaeus obscurellus, Lygaeus obsolescens, Lygaeus stabilitus, Lygaeus tinctus, Lygaeus ventralis
Type specimen: PU 1.835, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (former Princeton collection), which is in an Eocene lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (former Princeton collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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