Dytiscus lavateri Heer 1847 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229

Belongs to Dytiscus according to A. N. Nilsson 2001

See also Heer 1847, Heer 1862, Heer 1864, Scudder 1885 and Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Dytiscus avunculus, Dytiscus lapponicus, Dytiscus latahensis, Dytiscus marginalis, Dytiscus marginicollis, Dytiscus miocenicus, Dytiscus zersii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (2 collections)

• Oligocene of France (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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