Monticupes
| Monticupes Temporal range: | |
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| Monticupes curtinervis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Ommatidae |
| Genus: | †Monticupes Ren, 1995 |
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Monticupes is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. The genus is characterised by "moderately oval body, subtriangular or long (subparallelsided) head with large eyes and well raised temples, pronotum carinate and with subexplanate sides, veins well expressed with fused A1 and Cu at apex and their common vein ending on Sc, explanate elytral sides moderately wide and with diffuse small microtubercles, and abdominal ventrites co-planar (abutting)."[1]
Species
[edit]- †Monticupes curtinervis (Tan et al., 2007) – Yixian Formation, China, Aptian
- †Monticupes decorosus (Tan et al., 2012) – Daohugou, China, Callovian
- †Monticupes fentaiensis Ren, 1995 – Lushangfen Formation, China, Aptian
- †Monticupes surrectus Ren, 1995 – Lushangfen Formation, China, Aptian
References
[edit]- ↑ Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2020-02-17). "Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea". Geosciences. 10 (2): 73. Bibcode:2020Geosc..10...73K. doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073. ISSN 2076-3263.