Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Full reference: E. Gersdorf. 1976. Dritter Beitrag über Käfer (Coleoptera) aus dem Jungtertiär von Willershausen, Bl. Northeim 4226. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe A 36:103-145
Belongs to Cupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Gersdorf 1976 and Kirejtshuk et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cupes balticus, Cupes distinctissimus, Cupes eckfeldensis, Cupes golovatchi, Cupes groehni, Cupes hoffeinsorum, Cupes kerneggeri, Cupes komissari, Cupes legalovi, Cupes longus, Cupes lutzi, Cupes manifestus, Cupes messelensis, Cupes nabozhenkoi, Cupes ponomarenkoi, Cupes rohdendorfi, Cupes simillimus, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes tessellatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati
Type specimen: GZG 19924, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Willershausen clay pit (GZG collection), which is in a Piacenzian pond marl in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Willershausen clay pit (GZG collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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