Bolitophagus Illiger 1798 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: J. K. W. Illiger. 1798. Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens. Entworfen von Johann Gottlieb Kugelann Apotheker in Osterode 1-510

Parent taxon: Bolitophagini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Illiger 1798, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: Eledona, Eledonoprius, Proteleates, Rhipidandrus

Subtaxa: Bolitophagus vetustus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Krantz Bonn coll) (Oligocene of Germany)

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