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Cupes simillimus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Taxonomy
Cupes simillimus was named by Kirejtshuk et al. (2016). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.A51120, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat southeast outcrop (MNHN collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Cupes simillimus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 111 figs. 57-67
2020Cupes simillimus Kirejtshuk p. 64

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
superfamilyCupedoideaLaporte 1836
familyCupedidaeLaporte 1836
subfamilyCupedinaeLacordaire 1857
genusCupes
speciessimillimus

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.

†Cupes simillimus Kirejtshuk et al. 2016
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available