Peltis minuscula Piton 1935 (shield beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Peltidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1935. Taxonomic names, in La faune entomologique des gisements Mio-Pliocènes du Massif Central. Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 1:65-104

Belongs to Peltis according to J. Kolibáč 2013

See also Piton 1935 and Schmied et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Peltis antehercynica, Peltis constulata, Peltis costulata, Peltis laminata, Peltis tricostata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Auxillac (Piton coll), which is in a Messinian crater lake diatomite in France

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Auxillac (Piton coll)

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