Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Phyxelis dilapsus
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1893. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21:1-206
Belongs to Epicaerus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Scudder 1893 and Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011
Sister taxa: Epicaerus effossus, Epicaerus eradicatus, Epicaerus evigoratus, Epicaerus exanimis, Epicaerus excissus, Epicaerus fodinarum, Epicaerus saxatilis, Epicaerus subterraneus, Epicaerus terrosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Green River, bluffs behind town, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Green River, bluffs behind town
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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