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| Holotype fossil showing part (A) counterpart (C) and virtually combined (B) | |
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| Interpretive drawing of the part (A) counterpart (C) and combined (B) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | †Protocoleoptera |
| Superfamily: | †Tshekardocoleoidea |
| Family: | †Coleopsidae Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2016[2] |
| Genus: | †Coleopsis Kirejtshuk et al., 2014[1] |
| Species: | †C. archaica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Coleopsis archaica Kirejtshuk et al., 2014
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Coleopseidae Kirejtshuk, 2020 (Unj. Emend.) | |
Coleopsis is an extinct genus of stem-group beetles. It contains a single species, Coleopsis archaica, and is the only member of the family Coleopsidae. It is known from a single specimen from the Early Permian (Asselian) Meisenheim Formation of western Germany, estimated to be about 297 million years old. It is currently the oldest known beetle.
- ^ Kirejtshuk, A.G.; Poschmann, M.; Prokop, J.; Garrouste, R.; Nel, A. (2014). "Evolution of the elytral venation and structural adaptations in the oldest Palaeozoic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tshekardocoleidae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (5): 575–600. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.821530.
- ^ Kirejtshuk, A.G.; Nel, A (2016). Происхождение отряда жуков (Coleoptera) и значение палеонтологической летописи [Origin of the Coleoptera and significance of the fossil record] (PDF). Euroasian Entomological Journal (in Russian). 15 (Supplement 1): 66–73.