Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk, A. Nel, and F. Collomb. 2010. New Archostemata (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the French Paleocene and Early Eocene, with a note on the composition of the suborder. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46(1-2):216-227

Belongs to Cupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2010 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Cupes balticus, Cupes distinctissimus, Cupes eckfeldensis, Cupes golovatchi, Cupes groehni, Cupes hoffeinsorum, Cupes kerneggeri, Cupes komissari, Cupes legalovi, Cupes longus, Cupes lutzi, Cupes manifestus, Cupes messelensis, Cupes nabozhenkoi, Cupes praeglacialis, Cupes rohdendorfi, Cupes simillimus, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes tessellatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati

Type specimen: PA 6457, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.