Liadytidae

Liadytidae; Temporal range: Toarcian–Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	† Liadytidae ; Ponomarenko, 1977

Last updated May 22, 2025

Liadytidae is an extinct family of adephagan beetles. There are at least two genera and about seven described species in Liadytidae.^[1]^[2]^[3] They are known from the Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Asia. They are members of the clade Dytiscoidea, and like other members of that group were adapted for aquatic life.^[4]^[5]

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Liadytidae:

† Liadytes Ponomarenko, 1963
† Ovidytes Ren, Zhu & Lu, 1995

References

↑ "Liadytidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
↑ "Family Liadytidae information". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472 . PMID 21594053.
↑ Prokin, Alexander A.; Petrov, Pyotr N.; Wang, Bo; Ponomarenko, Alexander G. (2013-05-30). "New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)" . Zootaxa. 3666 (2): 137–159. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26217842.
↑ Beutel, Rolf G.; Wang, Bo; Tan, Jing-Jing; Ge, Si-Qin; Ren, Dong; Yang, Xing-Ke (April 2013). "On the phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Adephaga (Coleoptera, Insecta)" . Cladistics. 29 (2): 147–165. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00420.x. PMID 34814378. S2CID 85234655.

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[gbif-1] "Liadytidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-10.

[buglink-2] "Family Liadytidae information". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2019-05-10.

[Bouchard2011-3] Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472 . PMID 21594053.

[4] Prokin, Alexander A.; Petrov, Pyotr N.; Wang, Bo; Ponomarenko, Alexander G. (2013-05-30). "New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)" . Zootaxa. 3666 (2): 137–159. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26217842.

[5] Beutel, Rolf G.; Wang, Bo; Tan, Jing-Jing; Ge, Si-Qin; Ren, Dong; Yang, Xing-Ke (April 2013). "On the phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Adephaga (Coleoptera, Insecta)" . Cladistics. 29 (2): 147–165. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00420.x. PMID 34814378. S2CID 85234655.

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