Subtribe Blapstinina Mulsant and Rey 1853 (darkling beetle)
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
Type: Blapstinus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (USNM Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)