Alternative combinations: Notocupes cellulosus, Zygadenia cellulosa
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1969. Istoricheskoe Razvitie Zhestkokrylykh-Arkhostemat [Historical Development of the Archostomate Beetles]. Trudy Akademiya Nauk SSSR 125:1-240
Belongs to Rhabdocupes according to O. D. Strelnikova and E. V. Yan 2023
See also Kirejtshuk 2020, Ponomarenko 1969 and Strelnikova and Yan 2023
Sister taxa: Rhabdocupes baculatus, Rhabdocupes dischides, Rhabdocupes issykkulensis, Rhabdocupes laticella, Rhabdocupes lentus, Rhabdocupes longus, Rhabdocupes minisculus, Rhabdocupes minor, Rhabdocupes oxypygus, Rhabdocupes protensus, Rhabdocupes rostratus, Rhabdocupes sogutensis, Rhabdocupes tenuis, Rhabdocupes vitimensis
Type specimen: PIN 371/1689, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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