Monticupes

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]

Monticupes
Temporal range:
Monticupes curtinervis
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Monticupes

Ren 1995
Species
  • Monticupes curtinervis (Tan et al. 2007)
  • Monticupes decorosus (Tan et al. 2012)
  • Monticupes fentaiensis Ren 1995
  • Monticupes surrectus Ren 1995
Drawing of Monticupes decorosus

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