Psyllototus
Appearance
Psyllototus Temporal range:
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Scientific 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
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Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetles described from the late Eocene Rovno amber of Ukraine.[1] It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor.[1]
Species
The genus includes four species:
- Psyllototus doeberli Bukejs & Nadein, 2014[2]
- Psyllototus groehni Bukejs & Nadein, 2013[3]
- Psyllototus progenitor Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
- Psyllototus viking Nadein, 2015[4]
References
- ^ a b "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. 2010. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x.
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ignored (help) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.