Meracantha Kirby 1837 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Amarygmini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008, Nabozhenko 2019 and Wickham 1909
Sister taxon: Cymatothes
Subtaxa: Meracantha lacustris
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 11 (Eocene of Colorado)
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