Английская Википедия:Blapsium

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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 may suggest that it was 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]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 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. Шаблон:Doi
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  3. 3,0 3,1 J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10: 378–396.
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  5. 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite journal