Insecta - Coleoptera - Permocupedidae
Synonym: Kaltanocoleidae Rohdendorf 1961
Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1932. Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part II. Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Coleoptera, with the description of two new beetles from Tikhie Gory. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 2:63-96
Parent taxon: Mesocoleoptera according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Carpenter 1992, Kirejtshuk 2020 and Martynov 1932
Sister taxon: Metacoleoptera
Subtaxa: Archicupes reichardti Permocupedinae Protocupes martynovi
Type: Permocupes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection)
• Permian of Brazil (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (18), South Africa (2)
Total: 23 collections including 43 occurrences