Prateus LeConte 1862 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Synonym: Lorelus Sharp 1876
Full reference: J. L. LeConte. 1862. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Part I. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 3(136):209-286
Parent taxon: Prateini according to R. L. Aalbu et al. 2023
See also Bouchard et al. 2021, Bousquet et al. 2018, Doyen and Poinar 1994, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019
Sister taxon: Lorelopsis
Subtaxa: Prateus angulatus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)
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