Image by Skullman on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Cupes
Sign in to saveCupes 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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to Cupes, and connects out to Animalia, insect and arthropod.
It is catalogued under topics including Cupedidae, Monotypic Archostemata genera and Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cupedidae
- Image
- Cupes capitatus 3 (cropped).jpg
Show 3 more facts
- taxon name
- Cupes
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cupes
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cupes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.