Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1921. Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt. Abhandlungen der Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 7:2-15
Belongs to Tenebroides according to J. Kolibáč 2013
Sister taxa: Tenebroides (Polynesibroides), Tenebroides corrugata, Tenebroides emortua, Tenebroides insignis, Tenebroides tenebrioides, Trogossita eocaenica, Trogosita bella, Trogosita sculpturata, Trogosita koellikeri, Trogosita emortua, Trogosita longicollis, Trogosita amissa, Trogosita insignis, Trogosita assimilis
Type specimen: 1007, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Tenebroides eocenica in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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