Pyrochalcaspis Haupt 1950 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: H. Haupt. 1950. Die Käfer (Coleoptera) aus der eozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltales. Geologica 6:1-168

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

See also Haupt 1950, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: Anthracohelops, Caryosoma, Cnodalonini, Eodromus, Mimohelops, Parakeleusticus, Pseudohelops

Subtaxa: Pyrochalcaspis giseltalensis

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Type: Pyrochalcaspis giseltalensis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Geiseltal (Halle collection) (Eocene of Germany)

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