Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Alternative combination: Tenomerga messelense
Full reference: G. Tröster. 1993. Zwei neue mitteleuropäische Arten der Gattung Tenomerga Neboiss 1984 aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel und des Eckfelder Maares (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Cupedidae). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 31:169-176
Belongs to Cupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020
See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016 and Tröster 1993
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 nabozhenkoi, Cupes ponomarenkoi, Cupes praeglacialis, Cupes rohdendorfi, Cupes simillimus, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes tessellatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati
Type specimen: SMF MeI 2806, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit, grid square E9, 0.5-1.01 m below alpha, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit, grid square E9, 0.5-1.01 m below alpha
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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