Notocupes homorus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archostemata

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

Familia: incertae sedis
Genus: †Notocupes
Species: †Notocupes homorus

Name

Notocupes homorus (Lin, 1986)

Holotype: NIGP70058, a poorly-preserved body without elytra and lacking most portions of its legs.

Type locality: Lower Jurassic Guanyintan Formation; Lanshan County, Youngzhou City, Hunan Province, China.

Synonyms

• Conexicoxa homora Lin, 1986: 76 (original combination)
• Notocupes homorus: Ponomarenko et al., 2012: 478
• Zygadenia homora: Kirejtshuk, 2020

References

Primary references

• Kirejtshuk, A.G. 2020. Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10(2): 73. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10020073 . Reference page. 
• Lin, Q.B. 1986. Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 170: 1–112. Reference page. 
• Ponomarenko, A.G., Yan, E.V., Wang, B. & Zhang, H.C. 2012. Revision of some early Mesozoic beetles from China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 51(4): 475–490. Abstract. PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Strelnikova, O.D. & Yan, E.V. 2023. Redescriptions of the Triassic Notocupes beetles (Archostemata: Ommatidae) from Kyrgyzstan and South Kazakhstan. Palaeoentomology 6(2): 174–190. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.2.9 . Plazi. Reference page. 

Links

• Lorenz, W. 2018. CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles (version Oct 2017). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 20th December 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page.  [accessed on December 24, 2018]
• Notocupes homorus – Taxon details on Fossilworks.