†Attalus flexus Kirejtshuk 2019 (soft-winged flower beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
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 Attalus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NHMUK In.25571, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley 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 (Hooley coll)
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