Tenebroides insignis Heer 1868 (bark gnawing beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1868. Fossile Insecten von Nordgrönland. Flora Fossilis Arctica: Die Fossile Flora der Polarländer 1:129-130

Belongs to Tenebroides according to J. Kolibáč 2013

Sister taxa: Tenebroides (Polynesibroides), Tenebroides corrugata, Tenebroides emortua, Tenebroides eocenica, Tenebroides tenebrioides, Trogosita assimilis, Trogossita eocaenica, Trogosita bella, Trogosita longicollis, Trogosita emortua, Trogosita amissa, Trogosita koellikeri, Trogosita sculpturata, Trogosita insignis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Upper Atanekerdluk, which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Upper Atanekerdluk

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