Pseudocuphosis Nikitsky 2002 (false darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

Full reference: N. B. Nikitsky. 2002. New taxa of the beetles Melandryidae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea) from the Upper Cretaceous. Paleontological Journal 36:504-507

Parent taxon: Serropalpini according to J. Batelka et al. 2018

See also Nikitsky 2002

Sister taxa: Abderina, Archaeserropalpus, Homalenchodes, Longicrusa, Serropalpus

Subtaxa: Pseudocuphosis tristis

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Type: Pseudocuphosis tristis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits) (Cretaceous of New Jersey)

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