Cryptohelops Nabozhenko and Kirejtshuk 2014 (darkling beetle)

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

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Type: Cryptohelops menaticus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (MNT collection) (Paleocene of France)

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