Triplax materna Wickham 1912 (pleasing fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Erotylidae

Alternative combination: Tritoma materna

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1912. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 6(3):3-38

Belongs to Triplax according to O. Keller and P. E. Skelley 2019

See also Wickham 1912 and Wickham 1920

Sister taxa: Triplax contienensis, Triplax diluviana, Triplax petrefacta, Triplax submersa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14

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