Tenebroides tenebrioides Germar 1837 (bark gnawing beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Alternative combination: Trogosita tenebrioides

Full reference: E. F. Germar. 1837. Insectorum protogaeae specimen sistens insecta carbonum fossilium. Fauna Insectorum Europae 19

Belongs to Tenebroides according to J. Kolibáč 2013

See also Germar 1837, Handlirsch 1907 and Schmied et al. 2009

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Orsberg (Goldfuss Bonn collection), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Orsberg (Goldfuss Bonn collection)

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