†Kirghizocupes cellulosus Ponomarenko 1966 (reticulated beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1966. Zhuki semeystva Cupedidae iz nizhnego Triasa sredney Azii. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1966(4):47-68
Belongs to Kirghizocupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016 and Ponomarenko 1966
Sister taxa: Kirghizocupes indistinctus, Kirghizocupes proporeius
Type specimen: PIN 2069/1071, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2069, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Madygen, PIN collection 2069, Dzhailoucho area
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