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Attagenini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae

Taxonomy

Attagenini was named by Laporte (1840). It is extant.

It was assigned to Megatominae by Háva (2004), Háva and Prokop (2004); and to Attageninae by Háva et al. (2008), Háva (2014), Zahradník and Háva (2014), Háva (2015), Poinar and Háva (2015), Háva and Alekseev (2015), Cai et al. (2016), Peris and Háva (2016), Háva and Damgaard (2017), Deng et al. (2017), Háva and Bukejs (2018), Háva (2020), Zhou et al. (2022), Háva (2023), Háva (2025).

Subtaxa

Aethriostoma, Attagenus, Cretoattagenus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1840	Attagenini Laporte p. 35
2004	Attagenini Háva p. 152
2004	Attagenini Háva and Prokop p. 180
2008	Attagenini Háva et al. p. 154
2014	Attagenini Háva p. 212
2014	Attagenini Zahradník and Háva p. 313
2015	Attagenini Háva
2015	Attagenini Háva and Alekseev p. 155
2015	Attagenini Poinar and Háva p. 2
2016	Attagenini Cai et al. p. 96
2016	Attagenini Peris and Háva p. 493
2017	Attagenini Deng et al. p. 2
2017	Attagenini Háva and Damgaard p. 304
2018	Attagenini Háva and Bukejs p. 208
2020	Attagenini Háva p. 15
2022	Attagenini Zhou et al.
2023	Attagenini Háva p. 268
2025	Attagenini Háva p. 36

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Bostrichiformia	Forbes 1926
superfamily	Bostrichoidea
family	Dermestidae
subfamily	Attageninae	()
tribe	Attagenini
tribe	Attagenini

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Attagenini Laporte 1840

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G. Aethriostoma Motschulsky 1868

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†Attagenus (Aethriostoma) gedanicissimus Bukejs et al. 2020

G. Attagenus Latreille 1802

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†Attagenus aboriginalis Wickham 1913

†Attagenus ambericus Háva and Prokop 2004

†Attagenus balticus Háva et al. 2008

†Attagenus coziki Háva 2023

†Attagenus electron Poinar and Háva 2015

†Attagenus extinctus von Heyden and von Heyden 1865

†Attagenus hoffeinsorum Háva et al. 2006

†Attagenus lundi Háva and Damgaard 2017

†Attagenus motykai Háva 2025

†Attagenus obesus Háva et al. 2008

†Attagenus sopitus Scudder 1900

†Attagenus yantarnyi Háva and Bukejs 2013

Invalid names: Attagenus (Attagenus) Latreille 1802 [invalid subgroup]

G. †Cretoattagenus Háva 2020

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†Cretoattagenus coziki Háva 2020

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Langhian or 100.50000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (24 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Myanmar	Attagenus lundi (178122) Attagenus sp. (165561) Cretoattagenus coziki, Attagenus coziki, Attagenus motykai (205556)
MP 13	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Eifel)	Attagenus sp. (135641 135644)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Attagenus aboriginalis (122093)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Germany (Halle)	Attagenus balticus (124273)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Germany	Attagenus sp. (123769)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	Attagenus hoffeinsorum (123419)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	Attagenus gorskii (124519) Attagenus hoffeinsorum (110737 120813 205557)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Attagenus gedanicissimus, Attagenus gorskii (172936) Attagenus hoffeinsorum (124201 124202 192258) Attagenus obesus, Attagenus balticus, Attagenus hoffeinsorum (110735) Attagenus yantarnyi (152022)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	Attagenus gedanicissimus (207959)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Attagenus sopitus (106384)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Attagenus ambericus (151363) Attagenus electron (122472)
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Germany	Attagenus extinctus (152936)