Blapsium Westwood 1854 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae

Synonym: Blapsidium Phillips 1871

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Parent taxon: Ommatinae according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Ponomarenko 2006

Sister taxa: Allophalerus, Brochocoleus, Burmocoleus, Cionocoleus, Clessidrommatini, Diluticupes, Echinocups, Eurydictyon, Jarzembowskiops, Liassocupes, Lithocupedini, Lithocupes, Monticupes, Notocupoides, Odontomma, Ommatini, Paraodontomma, Pareuryomma, Polyakius, Pronotocupedini, Rhopalomma, Stegocoleus, Tetraphalerini, Tetraphalerites, Tetraphalerus, Tetraphalerus brevicapitis

Subtaxa: Blapsium egertoni

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Type: Blapsium egertoni

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Distribution: found only at Stonesfield, near Oxford (Enniskillen Coll) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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