Agabus charon Wickham 1912 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(3):3-38

Belongs to Agabus according to A. N. Nilsson 2001

See also Wickham 1912

Sister taxa: Agabus (Acatodes), Agabus (Agabus), Agabus (Gaurodytes), Agabus congeneroides, Agabus corticeus, Agabus florissantensis, Agabus hochi, Agabus latissimus, Agabus lithax, Agabus niedzwiedzkii, Agabus parvulus, Agabus perditus, Agabus praelugens, Agabus rathbuni, Agabus reductus, Agabus reitteri, Agabus rottensis, Agabus savagei, Agabus ungeri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14

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