Attagenus aboriginalis Wickham 1913 (skin beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae

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 Attagenus according to H. F. Wickham 1913

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

Type specimen: PU 6290, 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: found only at Florissant (former Princeton collection)

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