Rhabdocupes dischides Zhang 1986 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Alternative combinations: Notocupes dischides, Zygadenia dischides

Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1986. Some fossil insects from the Jurassic of northern Hebei, China. The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Shandong 74-84

Belongs to Rhabdocupes according to O. D. Strelnikova and E. V. Yan 2023

See also Kirejtshuk 2020, Strelnikova and Yan 2023 and Zhang 1986

Sister taxa: Rhabdocupes baculatus, Rhabdocupes cellulosus, 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: Shandong Museum Z80640, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Jiulongshan Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection)

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