Miostenosis lacordairei Wickham 1913 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1913. Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 45(1982):283-303

Belongs to Miostenosis according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008, Nabozhenko 2019 and Wickham 1913

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 59663, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (USNM Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (USNM Collection)

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