Alternative combinations: Notocupes vitimensis, Zygadenia vitimensis
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1966. Novye zhuki semeystva Cupedidae (Coleoptera) iz Mezozoyskikh otlozheniy Zabaikal'ya. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 45:138-143
Belongs to Rhabdocupes according to O. D. Strelnikova and E. V. Yan 2023
See also Kirejtshuk 2020, Ponomarenko 1966, Strelnikova and Yan 2021 and Strelnikova and Yan 2023
Sister taxa: Rhabdocupes baculatus, Rhabdocupes cellulosus, Rhabdocupes dischides, Rhabdocupes issykkulensis, Rhabdocupes laticella, Rhabdocupes lentus, Rhabdocupes longus, Rhabdocupes minisculus, Rhabdocupes minor, Rhabdocupes oxypygus, Rhabdocupes protensus, Rhabdocupes rostratus, Rhabdocupes sogutensis, Rhabdocupes tenuis
Type specimen: PIN 1989/3022, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.
Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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