Lacon jungi Piton 1940 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Alternative combination: Adelocera jungi

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Lacon according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Lacon fasciatus, Lacon granulatus, Lacon primordialis

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 76, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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