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Lithocupes

Lithocupes is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Carnian Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan containing the following species:Lithocupes gigas Ponomarenko, 1969 Lithocupes incertus Ponomarenko, 1966 Lithocupes punctatus Ponomarenko, 1969

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Lithocupes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ommatidae
Genus: †Lithocupes
Ponomarenko, 1966

Lithocupes is an extinct genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, known from the Carnian Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan containing the following species:1

  • Lithocupes gigas Ponomarenko, 1969
  • Lithocupes incertus Ponomarenko, 1966
  • Lithocupes punctatus Ponomarenko, 1969
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  1. Ommatidae Species List Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.