Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative spelling: Blapstinites

Full reference: E. Mulsant and C. Rey. 1853. Essai d’une division des derniers Mélasomes. Mémoires de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon. Classe des Sciences. Nouvelle Série 2:226-329

Parent taxon: Opatrini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Lumen et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Neopachypterina, Opatrina, Sclerina

Subtaxa: Blapstinus Ulus

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Type: Blapstinus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (USNM Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)

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