Bolitophagus Illiger 1798 (darkling beetle)
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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
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Rott (Krantz Bonn coll) (Oligocene of Germany)
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