Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Alternative combination: Mesocupes (Cainomerga) palaeocenicus

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk, A. Nel, and P. A. Kirejtshuk. 2016. Taxonomy of the reticulate beetles of the subfamily Cupedinae (Coleoptera: Archostemata), with a review of the historical development. Invertebrate Zoology 13(2):61-190

Belongs to Cainomerga according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Cainomerga brevicornis, Cainomerga fraterna, Cainomerga immaculata, Cainomerga ponti

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A51117, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Olivier collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Menat (Olivier collection)

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