Blapsium

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: Ommatidae
Tribus: †Notocupedini
Genus: †Blapsium
Species (1): †B. egertoni
Name
†Blapsium Westwood, 1854. Type species: †Blapsium egertoni Westwood, 1854, by monotypy.

Blapsium is an extinct genus of beetles from the Middle Jurassic period.[1][2] The only described species is B. egertoni,[3] and samples have only been found at the Taynton Limestone Formation, also known as the Stonesfield Slate.[4]

Blapsium was referred to Ommatidae (considered in the paper to be a subfamily of Cupedidae) in 2020.[5]
Sources

A. G. Ponomarenko. 2006. On the Types of Mesozoic Archostematan Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Archostemata) in the Natural History Museum, London. Paleontological Journal 40(1):90-99
Walker, Cyril Alexander; Ward, David (2002-01-01). Fossils. DK. p. 78. ISBN 9780789489845.
J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1892-01-01.
A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2020. Taxonomic review of fossil coleopterous families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10:73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]