†Xestobium alutaceum Wickham 1913 (spider beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. The Princeton collection of fossil beetles from Florissant. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 6:359-366
Belongs to Xestobium according to A. Bukejs and V. I. Alekseev 2015
See also Wickham 1913, Wickham 1914 and Zahradník and Háva 2014
Sister taxon: Xestobium michalskii
Type specimen: PU 6575, 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:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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