Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Alternative combination: Mesocupoides indistinctus
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1969. Istoricheskoe Razvitie Zhestkokrylykh-Arkhostemat [Historical Development of the Archostomate Beetles]. Trudy Akademiya Nauk SSSR 125:1-240
Belongs to Kirghizocupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016 and Ponomarenko 1969
Sister taxa: Kirghizocupes cellulosus, Kirghizocupes proporeius
Type specimen: PIN 2240/72, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2240, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Distribution: found only at Madygen, PIN collection 2240, Dzhailoucho area
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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