Blapsium Temporal range:
Middle Jurassic,
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John O. Westwood's figure of Blapsium egertoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Ommatidae |
Genus: | †
Blapsium Westwood, 1854 |
Species: | †B. egertoni
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Binomial name | |
†Blapsium egertoni Westwood, 1854
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Synonyms | |
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Blapsium is an extinct genus of beetles from the Middle Jurassic of England. [1] [2] The only described species is B. egertoni, [3] which is known from a single specimen found by the Earl of Enniskillen at the Taynton Limestone Formation, also known as the Stonesfield Slate. [4] The specimen is deposited in the Natural History Museum, London. It is incompletely preserved, lacking a head, pronotum and legs. It has a broad, convex body. It has a very short metathorax, which suggests that it was possibly apterous. [1] [5]
In his original description of the genus, John O. Westwood compared Blapsium to the darkling beetles and ground beetles. [3] Ponomarenko (2006) redescribed the holotype of B. egertoni and referred it to the tribe Notocupedini in the family Ommatidae (considered in the paper to be a subfamily of Cupedidae), which was followed by Kirejtshuk (2020). [1] [5]
Blapsium Temporal range:
Middle Jurassic,
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John O. Westwood's figure of Blapsium egertoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Ommatidae |
Genus: | †
Blapsium Westwood, 1854 |
Species: | †B. egertoni
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Binomial name | |
†Blapsium egertoni Westwood, 1854
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Synonyms | |
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Blapsium is an extinct genus of beetles from the Middle Jurassic of England. [1] [2] The only described species is B. egertoni, [3] which is known from a single specimen found by the Earl of Enniskillen at the Taynton Limestone Formation, also known as the Stonesfield Slate. [4] The specimen is deposited in the Natural History Museum, London. It is incompletely preserved, lacking a head, pronotum and legs. It has a broad, convex body. It has a very short metathorax, which suggests that it was possibly apterous. [1] [5]
In his original description of the genus, John O. Westwood compared Blapsium to the darkling beetles and ground beetles. [3] Ponomarenko (2006) redescribed the holotype of B. egertoni and referred it to the tribe Notocupedini in the family Ommatidae (considered in the paper to be a subfamily of Cupedidae), which was followed by Kirejtshuk (2020). [1] [5]