Rhabdocupes Explained

Rhabdocupes is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Late Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan, containing the following species:^[1]

• Rhabdocupes baculatus Ponomarenko, 1969
• Rhabdocupes longus Ponomarenko, 1966
• Rhabdocupes minor Ponomarenko, 1966

Rhabdocupes may be closely related to the genus Notocupes.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Ommatidae.txt Ommatidae Species List
2. Li . Yan-Da . Tihelka . Erik . Yamamoto . Shûhei . Newton . Alfred F. . Xia . Fang-Yuan . Liu . Ye . Huang . Di-Ying . Cai . Chen-Yang . 2023-08-22 . Mesozoic Notocupes revealed as the sister group of Cupedidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata) . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 11 . 10.3389/fevo.2023.1015627 . 2296-701X . free .
3. Li . Y.-D. . Tihelka . E. . Newton . A. F. . Huang . D.-Y. . Cai . C.-Y. . New species of Notocupes (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds, with discussion on the generic circumscription . 2023 . Palaeoentomology . 6 . 4 . 398–415 . 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.11 . 261331151 . free .