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Family Scirtidae Fleming, 1821 - marsh beetles: Atlas of extinct groups of beetles


Synonym: Elodidae Shuckard, 1840; Helodidae Agassiz, 1846; Cephonidae Stephens, 1829; Sinodryopitidae Hong, 2002

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk , January 2009.

 

 

Composition of genera, including fossils:

 

    Elodes Latreille, 1796 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Microcara Thomson, 1859 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

Cyphon Paykull, 1799 (Lower Eocene - Recent)

    Prionocyphon Redtenbacher, 1858 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Hydrocyphon Redtenbacher, 1858 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Scirtes Illiger, 1807 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    + Sinodryopites Hong, 2002 (Upper or Middle Eocene)

    + Expansifemoria Hong, 2002 (Upper or Middle Eocene)

    + Brachypodites Hong, 2002 (Upper or Middle Eocene)

    + Actinocerites Hong, 2002 (Upper or Middle Eocene)

    + Brachelodes Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1961 (Upper Eocene)

    + Cyphonogenius Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1961 (Upper Eocene)

    + Plagiocyphon Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1961 (Upper Eocene)

    + Miocyphon Wickham, 1914 (Lower Oligocene)

 

 

Literature

 

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

 

Пономаренко А.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1980. Надотряд Scarabaeidea. Жесткокрылообразные. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 175) Москва, Наука. 75-84.

 

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

 

Crowson R.A. 1975. The evolutionary history of Coleoptera as documented by fossil and comparative evidence. Atti Congr. naz. Ital. Entomol. 10th. Sassari 1974. 47-90.

 

Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.

 

Kirejtshuk A.G. & Azar D. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia, 2: 15-46.

 

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. 1976. Neue Arten der Gattung Helodes Lateille aus Bernstein (Coleoptera, Helodidae). 31. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Helodidae. Reichenbachia. 16. 53-61.

 

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

 

Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2 Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.