Subfamily Blaptinae Leach 1815 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Tenebrionidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Amphidorini Blaptini Opatrini Pedinini

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Type: Blaps

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (5: California, Colorado collections)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of France (1), United States (2: Colorado)

• Paleocene of France (1)

Total: 10 collections including 18 occurrences

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