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Platycupes dolichocerus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Triadocupedidae

Taxonomy
Platycupes dolichocerus was named by Ponomarenko (1966). Its type specimen is PIN 2069/1107, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2069, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan. It is the type species of Platycupes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Platycupes dolichocerus Ponomarenko p. 49 figs. Pl 3, fig 1; text-fig 1
2020Platycupes dolichocerus Kirejtshuk p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
familyTriadocupedidae()
genusPlatycupes
speciesdolichocerus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Platycupes dolichocerus Ponomarenko 1966
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Diagnosis
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