Subfamily Nitidulinae (Nitidulidae): atlas of extinct beetle taxa

A.G.Kirejtshuk

A.G.Kirejtshuk, January 2008.

The composition of genera including extinct forms:

• Tribe Nitidulini Latreille, 1802 (Lower Cretaceous– Recent)

  Microsoronia Kirejtshuk et Kurochkin, 2008 (Upper Eocene – Upper Oligocene)

  Prometopia Erichson, 1843 (border Eocene and Oligocene - Recent)

  Palaeometopia Kirejtshuk et Poinar, 2007 (Miocene)

  Nitidula Fabricius, 1775 (Lower Eocene – Recent)

  Phenolia Erichson, 1843 (Middle Eocene - Recent)

  Miophenolia Wickham, 1916 (Lower Oligocene)

  Amphotis Erichson, 1843 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

  Oligoamphotis Theobald, 1937 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

  Omosita Erichson, 1843 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

  Omositoidea Schaufuss, 1892 (Upper Eocene – Recent)

  Gen. et sp. (Lower Cretaceous –Sаntаnа)

   

• Tribe Cychramini Lacordaire, 1854 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

  Cychramites Wickham, 1913 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

   

• Tribe Mystropini Murray, 1864 (Recent)

   

• Tribe Strongylini Erichson, 1842 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

  Cyllodes Erichson, 1843 (Eocene – Recent)

  Cyllolithus Kirejtshuk, 1990 (Lower Cretaceous)

   

• Tribe Cychramptodini Kirejtshuk et Lawrence, 1992 (Recent)

   

• Tribe Lawrencerosini Kirejtshuk, 1990 (Recent)

Omositoidea pubescens Kirejtshuk et Poinar, 2007,holotype (“C-7-392”, collection by Oregon State University – Oregon State University, Corvallis). body, from above; Eocene, Baltic amber. Photo by H. Taylor (H. Taylor, Natural History Museum in London)

 

Literature:

 

Look also at the pageSystematic list of fossil beetles of Cupedina, Carabina и Scarabaeina (1 part)

 

and also essay on sap beetles.

 

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Genus Microsoronia Kirejtshuk et Kurochkin, 2010 (Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae): Atlas of extinct groups of beetles Genus Omositoidea (Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae: Nitidulini): atlas of extinct beetle taxa Genus Palaeometopia Kirejtshuk et Poinar, 2007 (Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae): atlas of extinct beetle taxa