Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

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 Cupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also 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 praeglacialis, Cupes rohdendorfi, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes tessellatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A51120, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat southeast outcrop (MNHN collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat southeast outcrop (MNHN collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.