Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae
Alternative combinations: Cupoides tessellatus, Priacma tessellata
Full reference: V. Motschulsky. 1856. Lettres de M. de Motschulsky à M. Ménétriés. Études Entomologique 5:3-38
Belongs to Cupes according to A. G. Kirejtshuk et al. 2016
See also de Peyerimhoff 1909, Kirejtshuk 2005, Kirejtshuk 2020 and Motschulsky 1856
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 simillimus, Cupes tesselatus, Cupes wedmannae, Cupes weitschati
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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