Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Full reference: L. Piton. 1939. Note Complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles des Cinérites Pliocènes du Lac Chambon (Puy-de-Dôme). Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 5:102-108
Belongs to Elaphrus according to L. Piton 1939
Sister taxa: Elaphrus (Neoelaphrus), Elaphrus americanus, Elaphrus angusticollis, Elaphrus californicus, Elaphrus cupreus, Elaphrus finitimus, Elaphrus irregularis, Elaphrus japonicus, Elaphrus lapponicus, Elaphrus lecontei, Elaphrus purpurans, Elaphrus riparius, Elaphrus ruscarius, Elaphrus sibiricus, Elaphrus tuberculatus
Type specimen: Col Piton 1008, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lac Chambon (Piton coll), which is in a Gelasian crater lake diatomite/volcaniclastic in France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lac Chambon (Piton coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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