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Genus of beetles
Copidita Temporal range:
37.2–0
Ma
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Oedemeridae
Tribe:
Asclerini
Genus:
Copidita
LeConte , 1866
[1]
Species
43 species, including:
Copidita biparticollis Pic, 1928
Copidita desecheonis Wolcott, 1950
Copidita kaszabi Pic, 1956
Copidita leveri Pic, 1935
Copidita longissima Pic, 1923
†Copidita miocenica Wickham 1914
[2]
Copidita ogloblini Pic, 1930
Copidita punctatithorax Pic, 1927
Copidita quadrimaculata (Motschulsky, 1853)
Copidita saigonensis Pic, 1928
Copidita thonalmus Darlington, 1936
Synonyms
Copodita (Pic, 1923)
Copidita is a genus of false blister beetles in the subfamily
Oedemerinae . It is an extant genus with at least one fossil species described from the Florissant Eocene of Colorado.
References
^ Leconte 1866: N. Spec. N. Amer. Coleopt., 164.
^ H. F. Wickham. 1914. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53:423-494
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