Cainomerga immaculata Piton 1940 (reticulated beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Alternative combinations: Mesocupes (Cainomerga) immaculatus, Zonabris immaculatus

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Cainomerga according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2016 and Piton 1940

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

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 650, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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