Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2005. A revision of the genus Cupes Fabricius, 1801 from Baltic amber and some notes on taxonomy and composition of the family Cupedidae (Coleoptera, Archostemata). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89:55-84
Belongs to Cupes according to A. Bukejs et al. 2021
See also Kirejtshuk 2005, Kirejtshuk 2020 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cupes balticus, Cupes distinctissimus, Cupes eckfeldensis, Cupes golovatchi, Cupes hoffeinsorum, Cupes kerneggeri, Cupes komissari, Cupes legalovi, Cupes longus, Cupes lutzi, Cupes manifestus, Cupes messelensis, Cupes nabozhenkoi, Cupes ponomarenkoi, Cupes praeglacialis, Cupes rohdendorfi, Cupes simillimus, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes tessellatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati
Type specimen: GPIH 4420, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (3 collections), Ukraine (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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