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Kirghizocupes proporeius

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Taxonomy
Mesocupoides proporeius was named by Ponomarenko (1969). Its type specimen is PIN 2240/3, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2240, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

It was recombined as Kirghizocupes proporeius by Kirejtshuk et al. (2016); it was misspelled as Kirghizocupes proporeus by Kirejtshuk (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Mesocupoides proporeius Ponomarenko p. 106 figs. Pl 9, figs 3,4; text-fig 57
2016Kirghizocupes proporeius Kirejtshuk et al. p. 134
2020Kirghizocupes proporeus Kirejtshuk p. 69

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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
genusKirghizocupes
speciesproporeius()

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.

Kirghizocupes proporeius Ponomarenko 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Ladinian or 242.00000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Kyrgyzstan (Osh) Mesocupoides proporeius (106090 type locality: 110763)