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. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Kirejtshuk 2005 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cupes balticus, Cupes distinctissimus, Cupes eckfeldensis, Cupes golovatchi, Cupes groehni, 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: Hoffeins 1036-2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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