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Notocupes elegans

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Notocupes elegans was named by Ponomarenko (1994). Its type specimen is PIN 3559/1624, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 36/3), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

It was recombined as Zygadenia elegans by Kirejtshuk (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Notocupes elegans Ponomarenko p. 113 fig. 8
2020Zygadenia elegans Kirejtshuk p. 45
2023Notocupes elegans Strelnikova and Yan p. 18 figs. 27, 28, 45

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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
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
genusNotocupes
specieselegans

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.

Notocupes elegans Ponomarenko 1994
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Diagnosis
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