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Genus Cyphon Paykull, 1799 (Scirtidae): Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

Genus Cyphon Paykull, 1799 (Scirtidae) (type species: Cistela pallida Fabricius, 1775, by designation Westwood 1838; Recent)

 

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk , February 2009.

 

Cyphon gallicus & Cyphon lobanovi

Species by genus Cyphon Lower Eocene, French amber (collection of National Natural History Museum, Paris).
A - C. gallicus Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2008; B - C. lobanovi Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2008.
Photo by A.G.Kirejtshuk and A. Nel.

 

 

 

Literature:

 

(Look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Cupedina, Carabina and Scarabaeina (1 part)

 

Яблоков-Хнзорян С.М. 1961. Представители семейства Helodidae (Coleoptera) из балтийского янтаря. Палеонтол. журн. No 1. С. 108-116. (Iablokoff-Khnzorian S.M.)

 

Kirejtshuk A.G. & A. Nel. 2008. New beetles of the suborder Polyphaga from the Lowermost Eocene French amber (Insecta: Coleoptera). Ann. Soc. Entomol. France, 44 (4): 419-442.

 

Klausnitzer, B. 2004. New species of Scirtidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic amber (Part 1). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 48(2): 99-103.