Attagenus Explained

Attagenus is a genus of beetles. This genus is found in tropical Africa, the Palearctic including Europe, the Near East, the Nearctic, North Africa and East Asia. There are nearly 200 species.^[1] The genus has existed for at least 99 million years, with fossils known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber and Turonian aged New Jersey amber.^[2]

Species include:^[3]

Notes and References

1. Kadej . Marcin . Háva . Jiří . amp . Attagenus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Attageninae) in Turkey with a description of a new species . Entomologica Fennica . 2014 . 25 . 1 . 1–5 . 10.33338/ef.84617 . free . ResearchGate
2. Cai. Chenyang. Háva. Jiří. Huang. Diying . amp . April 2017. The earliest Attagenus species (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Attageninae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber . Cretaceous Research. 72. 95–99. 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.018 .
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20140522033229/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=413556 Attagenus.