Ascioplaga

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Archostemata
Superfamilia: Cupedoidea

Familia: Cupedidae
Genus: Ascioplaga
Species (3): A. mimeta – A. scalena – A. sciasma
Name

Ascioplaga Neboiss, 1984

Type species: Ascioplaga mimeta Neboiss, 1984, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Neboiss, A. 1984: Reclassification of Cupes Fabricius (s.lat.), with descriptions of new genera and species (Cupedidae: Coleoptera). Systematic entomology, 9: 443–477. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1984.tb00520.x Reference page.

Additional references

Hörnschemeyer, T. 2009. The species-level phylogeny of archostematan beetles—where do Micromalthus debilis and Crowsoniella relicta belong? Systematic Entomology 34: 533–558. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00476.x Paywall. [Note: Unpublished for the purposes of zoological nomenclature (Art. 8.2, ICZN)]
Hörnschemeyer, T.; Goebbels, J.; Weidemann, G.; Faber, C.; Haase, A. 2006: The head morphology of Ascioplaga mimeta (Coleoptera: Archostemata) and the phylogeny of Archostemata. European journal of entomology, 103: 409–423. PDF

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Ascioplaga is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae, containing two species endemic to New Caledonia.[1]
References

Arnett, R.H., Jr. & M. C. Thomas, eds. American Beetles, Volume 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2001. p. 20.