Corticaria melanophthalma Heer 1856 (minute brown scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Latridiidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1856. Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1:1-40

Belongs to Corticaria according to H. P. Reike et al. 2017

See also Heer 1856 and Oustalet 1874

Sister taxa: Corticaria aeterna, Corticaria amberica, Corticaria egregia, Corticaria hodeberti, Corticaria missa, Corticaria occlusa, Corticaria petrefacta, Corticaria reitteri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Musee Blanchet Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Aix-en-Provence (Musee Blanchet Coll)

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