†Ceropria messelense Hörnschemeyer 1994 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: T. Hörnschemeyer. 1994. Ein fossiler Tenebrionide Ceropria? messelense n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae) aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 170:75-83
Belongs to Ceropria according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019
See also Hörnschemeyer 1994 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMF MeI 1558, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit, excavation 16, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (8 collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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