Kateretidae

Kateretidae Temporal range: Barremian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Kateretes pedicularius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Kateretidae Erichson in Agassiz, 1846
Synonyms
Brachypteridae Erichson, 1845

Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. ^{[1] [2] [3]} There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least 40 described species. ^{[4] [5] [6]} They are found worldwide except in New Zealand. Adults are anthophagous, feeding on flowers, while the larvae are spermatophagous inside the flower corolla. ^[7]

Kateretes pusillus

Genera

• Amartus LeConte, 1861 ^{i c g b}
• Anamartus Jelinek, 1976 ^g
• Anthonaeus Horn, 1879 ^{i c g b}
• Boreades Parson, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Brachyleptus Motschulsky, 1845 ^g
• Brachypterolus Grouvelle, 1913 ^{i c g b}
• Brachypterus Kugelann, 1794 ^{i c g b}
• Heterhelus DuVal, 1858 ^{i c g b}
• Kateretes Herbst, 1793 ^{i c g b}
• Neobrachypterus Jelínek, 1979 ^{i c g}
• † Eoceniretes Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 ^g
• † Lebanoretes Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[4] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[5] g = GBIF, ^[6] b = Bugguide.net ^[1]

Fossil taxa Cretaretes , Electrumeretes , Furcalabratum , Pelretes , Polliniretes , Protokateretes and Scaporetes from the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, originally described as kateretids, were subsequently argued to be sap beetles belonging to the subfamily Apophisandrinae ^[8] or members of the separate family Apophisandridae. ^[9] Pelretes has been described and claimed to have been an pollinator of angiosperms based on it being preserved in amber that also contained angiosperm pollen, much of it in coprolites, ^[10] although this interpretation has been questioned. ^[11]

References

1. "Kateretidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
2. Family KATERETIDAE at Australian Faunal Directory
3. Cucujoidea - Nomen.at - animals and plants
4. "Kateretidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
5. "Browse Kateretidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
6. "Kateretidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
7. Peris, David; Jelínek, Josef (February 2020). "Syninclusions of two new species of short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)" . Cretaceous Research. 106: 104264. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104264. S2CID   204258472.
8. Peris, D.; Jelínek, J.; Sabatelli, S.; Liu, M.-K.; Peña-Kairath, C.; Zhao, Q.; Cai, C.-Y.; Kairišs, K.; Mähler, B.; Rühr, P. T.; Hammel, J. U.; Audisio, P. (2024). "Archaic sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) as Cretaceous pollinators". Palaeoentomology. 7 (5): 594–610. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.4.
9. Kirejtshuk, A. G.; Jenkins Shaw, J.; Smirnov, I. S. (2023). "A New Subgenus of the Genus Phenolia (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from Myanmar Cretaceous Amber with Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Bionomic Notes on the 'Nitidulid' Group of Families". Insects. 14 (7). 647. doi: 10.3390/insects14070647 . PMC   10380190 . PMID   37504653.
10. Tihelka, Erik; Li, Liqin; Fu, Yanzhe; Su, Yitong; Huang, Diying; Cai, Chenyang (12 April 2021). "Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle". Nature Plants . 7 (4): 445–451. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00893-2. ISSN   2055-0278 . Retrieved 21 July 2024.
11. Bao, Tong; Wedmann, Sonja; Grímsson, Friðgeir; Beutel, Rolf Georg; Seyfullah, Leyla; Bao, Liang; Jarzembowski, Edmund A. (23 December 2021). "Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator?" . Nature Plants . 8 (1): 38–40. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-01044-3. ISSN   2055-0278 . Retrieved 30 June 2024.

External links

• Media related to Kateretidae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Kateretidae at Wikispecies