†Cryptohelops Nabozhenko and Kirejtshuk 2014 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: M. V. Nabozhenko and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2014. Cryptohelops menaticus – a new genus and species of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Palaeocene of Menat (France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 13:65-71
Parent taxon: Helopina according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Nabozhenko 2019 and Nabozhenko and Kirejtshuk 2014
Sister taxa: Euboeus, Helops, Stenohelops
Subtaxa: Cryptohelops menaticus
Type: Cryptohelops menaticus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (MNT collection) (Paleocene of France)
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