Platydema Laporte and Brulle 1831 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Parent taxon: Diaperina according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Doyen and Poinar 1994, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008, Nabozhenko 2019 and Wickham 1912
Sister taxa: Ceropria, Liodema, Neomida, Pentaphyllus
Subtaxa: Platydema antiquorum Platydema bethunei Platydema geinitzi
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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