Davidraenites spurcus Kirejtshuk 2019 (minute moss beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydraenidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2019. Taxonomic names, in The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:405-492

Belongs to Davidraenites according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2019

Sister taxa: Davidraenites gratshevi, Davidraenites interruptus

Type specimen: IWCMS 2018.41.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Thorness Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (IWCMS coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bembridge Marls Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Thorness Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (IWCMS coll)

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