Attagenus balticus Háva et al. 2008 (skin beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae

Full reference: J. Háva, J. Prokop, and A. Herrmann. 2008. New fossil dermestid beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Baltic amber – III. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 71:151-157

Belongs to Attagenus according to J. Háva and V. I. Alekseev 2015

See also Háva 2014 and Háva et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Attagenus (Attagenus), Attagenus aboriginalis, Attagenus ambericus, Attagenus coziki, Attagenus electron, Attagenus extinctus, Attagenus hoffeinsorum, Attagenus lundi, Attagenus motykai, Attagenus obesus, Attagenus sopitus, Attagenus yantarnyi

Type specimen: GPIG 44/1998, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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