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Fossil beetle remains have been found in a sample taken from a Late Quaternary wood rat midden.Three fragments have been assigned to the extant species, Niptus abstrusus Spilman (Coleoptera:Ptinidae).
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Allan Ashworth (1973) studied this question.
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