Tenebrio primigenius

Tenebrio primigenius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Tenebrionini
Genus: Tenebrio
Subgenus: incertae sedis
Species: †T. primigenius

Name

• †Tenebrio primigenius Scudder, 1879

Type locality

• Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Allenby Formation, Princeton Group; Whipsaw Creek (Nine mile Creek), near Princeton, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

Type material

• Holotype:GSC 63
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Canada collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Collector:George Mercer Dawson, 1877

Etymology

• None given

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Princeton Group, Allenby Formation; Whipsaw Creek (Nine mile Creek), near Princeton, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

References

Primary references

• Scudder, S. H (1879). Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for 1877–1878. pp. 175–185.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Nabozhenko, M. V. 2019. The fossil record of darkling beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Geosciences 9(12): 514. doi:10.3390/geosciences9120514. 

Links

• Tenebrio primigenius – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.

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