Insecta - Coleoptera - Throscidae
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 Trixagus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2019
Sister taxa: Trixagus majusculus, Trixagus parvulus, Trixagus sericeus, Trixagus sosnovskyi, Throscus peritulus, Throscus dermestoides
Type specimen: NHMUK I.10017, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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