†Elytrophagus porphyroleucus Zhang 1989 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1989. Fossil Insects From Shanwang, Shandong, China 1-459
Belongs to Elytrophagus according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2018
See also Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: 840065, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 3, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 3
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