Coniontis lamentabilis Blaisdell 1924 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: F. E. Blaisdell. 1924. New forms of Coniontus (Coleoptera). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 1:83-87
Belongs to Coniontis according to Y. Bousquet et al. 2018
See also Blaisdell 1924, Doyen and Miller 1980 and Pierce 1954
Sister taxa: Coniontis abdominalis, Coniontis elliptica, Coniontis pectoralis, Coniontis puncticollis, Coniontis remnans, Coniontis robusta
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Rancho La Brea, Pit A (LACMIP 88) (Quaternary of California)
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