NOMEN: Archostemata Kolbe 1908: 246 [H. Kolbe. Mein System der Coleopteren. – Zeitschr. wiss. Insectbiol., Bd.4, 1908]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Kolbe 1908):
Cupedidae
SENIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Protadephaga Kolbe 1903
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Cupes/fg
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Cupes, Cupesides, Cupedidae, Cupedoidea, Cupediformia
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted plesiomorphon.
Systematic
position of Archostemata:
| Coleoptera Archostemata Pantophaga Adephagi Myxophaga Polyphaga |