Blapsium egertoni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cupedoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Archostemata Superfamilia: Cupedoidea

Familia: Ommatidae
Subfamilia: Ommatinae
Tribus: †Notocupedini
Genus: †Blapsium
Species: †Blapsium egertoni

Name

Blapsium egertoni Westwood, 1854: 393, pl. 14, fig. 13

Holotype: NHM, In. 34379, body without head, pronotum, or legs.

Type locality: England, Oxfordshire, 8 km north-east of Witney, near the village of Stonesfield; Bathonian, Taunton Limestone Formation, Stonesfield Slate.

Synonyms

Blapsidium egertoni Phillips, 1871: 174

References

Primary references

Phillips, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 523 pp. BHL.
Westwood, J.O. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10: 378–396. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page. [p. 546, pl. 45, fig. 19]
Ponomarenko, A.G. 2006. [On the types of Mesozoic archostematan beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Archostemata) in the Natural History Museum, London]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2006(1): 86–94. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 40(1): 90–99. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030106010102 . PDF.] Reference page.