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Extinct genus of beetles

Psyllototus
Temporal range: Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: †Psyllototus
Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
Type species
†Psyllototus progenitor
Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010

Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetles described from the late Eocene Rovno amber of Ukraine, and from the Baltic amber of Russia and Denmark. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor. In 2016, a newly described extant flea beetle genus from Bolivia, Chanealtica, was found to be most similar to Psyllototus, based on the characters available for observation.

Species

The genus includes four species:

  • Psyllototus doeberli Bukejs & Nadein, 2014
  • Psyllototus groehni Bukejs & Nadein, 2013
  • Psyllototus progenitor Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
  • Psyllototus viking Nadein, 2015

References

  1. ^ Konstantin Nadein; Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..772N. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x. S2CID 85383059.
  2. Konstantinov, Alexander S. (2016). "Possible living fossil in Bolivia: A new genus of flea beetles with modified hind legs (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)". ZooKeys (592): 103–120. Bibcode:2016ZooK..592..103K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.592.8180. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4926638. PMID 27408546.
  3. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2013). "A second species of Psyllototus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae:Alticini) from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 3609 (5): 465–470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.5.2. PMID 24699610.
  4. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2014). "Psyllototus groehni sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a new species of the palaeoendemic genus from Baltic amber" (PDF). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 14 (2): 163–166.
  5. Nadein, Konstantin S.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "New Late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (1): 117–137. doi:10.1002/spp2.1034. S2CID 86059856.
Taxon identifiers
Psyllototus


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