Cupes
Cupes is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae. The Cupedidae are typical “reticulate” or “net-winged” beetles with incompletely sclerotized elytra that produce the characteristic reticulate appearance.
Cupes contains a single living species Cupes capitatus and a number of extinct species described from fossils dating from the Pliocene to the Paleocene. C. capitatus is native to eastern North America, while the fossils are described from China and Europe. C. capitatus adults are long on average with red to gray-brown body color and a bright orange head that is molded into several knobby protuberances.
Species
- Cupes capitatus Fabricius, 1801
- †Cupes distinctissimus Kirejtshuk et al., 2016
- †Cupes eckfeldensis
- †Cupes golovatchi Kirejtshuk, 2020
- †Cupes groehni Kirejtshuk, 2005
- †Cupes hoffeinsorum Kirejtshuk, 2005
- †Cupes kerneggeri Kirejtshuk, 2005
- †Cupes komissari Kirejtshuk, 2005
- †Cupes legalovi Kirejtshuk, 2020
- †Cupes longus Hong & Wang, 1987
- †Cupes lutzi Kirejtshuk, 2020
- †Cupes manifestus Kirejtshuk et al., 2010
- †Cupes messelensis
- †Cupes nabozhenkoi Kirejtshuk, 2020
- †Cupes ponomarenkoi Kirejtshuk et al., 2010
- †Cupes praeglacialis Gersdorf, 1976
- †Cupes rohdendorfi Yablokov-Khnzorian, 1960
- †Cupes simillimus Kirejtshuk et al., 2016
- †Cupes tessellatus Motschulsky, 1856
- †Cupes wedmannae Kirejtshuk, 2020
- †Cupes weitschati Kirejtshuk, 2005