Stenomorpha (Stenomorpha) mckittricki Pierce 1954 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combinations: Parasida mckittricki, Stenomorpha mckittricki

Full reference: W. D. Pierce. 1954. Fossil arthropods of California no. 18. The Tenebrionidae-Tentyriinae of the asphalt deposits. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 53:35-45

Belongs to Stenomorpha (Stenomorpha) according to Y. Bousquet et al. 2018

See also Doyen and Miller 1980 and Pierce 1954

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LACM S9058, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is McKittrick asphalt, site 4 (LACMIP 260), 4 feet depth, which is in a Holocene tar tar in California.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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