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Psyllototus

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Psyllototus
Temporal range: Late Eocene
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.[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

  1. ^ 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.