Chrysomela titana Meunier 1921

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Alternative combination: Lina titana

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1921. Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt. Abhandlungen der Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 7:2-15

Belongs to Chrysomela according to K. S. Nadein 2019

See also Meunier 1921

Sister taxa: Chrysomela calami, Chrysomela ceresti, Chrysomela debilis, Chrysomela hilberi, Chrysomela lichenis, Chrysomela matheroni, Chrysomela micropunctata, Chrysomela populi, Chrysomela punctigera, Chrysomela rudeli, Chrysomela succini, Chrysomela vesperalis, Lina wetteravica, Lina sociata, Lina populeti

Type specimen: 1119, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection)

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