Agabus savagei Wickham 1917 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1917. Some fossil beetles from the Sangamon peat. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 44:137-145

Belongs to Agabus according to A. N. Nilsson 2001

See also Wickham 1917

Sister taxa: Agabus (Acatodes), Agabus (Agabus), Agabus (Gaurodytes), Agabus charon, 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 ungeri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sangamon river near Mahomet, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial peat in Illinois

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Sangamon river near Mahomet

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