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Superfamily Sphaeriusoidea: Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

(= Microsporoidea)


Composition:


Family Sphaeriusidae


Family Hydroscaphidae


Family Torridincolidae


Literature:

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


Beutel R.G. 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) with redescription of Lepicerus horni (Lepiceridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 237: 291-308.

Crowson R.A. 1955. The natural classification of the families of Coleoptera. Nathaniel Lloyd & Co., London. 1-176.

Kirejtshuk A.G. 1991/1992. Evolution of mode of life as the basis for division of the beetles into groups of high taxonomic rank. In: M. Zunino, X. Belles, M. Blas, eds. Advances in Coleopterology. Baecelona, Ass. Europ. Coleopt. 249-261.

Kirejtshuk A.G. & Pinar G. 2006. Haplochelidae, a new family of Cretaceous beeles (Coleoptera, Myxophaga) from Burmese amber. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington, 108 (1): 155-164.

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.

Reichardt, H. 1973. A critical study of the suborder Myxophaga with a taxonomic revision of the Brazilian Tarridincolidae and Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera). Arquivo do Zoologia, Sao Paulo, 24 (2): 73-162.