Nosodendridae

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Nosodendridae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Present
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Nosodendron zealandicum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Nosodendridae
Erichson, 1846
Genera

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Nosodendridae is a family of beetles, with less than a hundred species in three extant genera, [1] which are found worldwide. Nosodendron , the largest genus, is found in forests and attracted to yeast generated slime on the wounds of trees, and likely consumes fermented substances as well as fungi and microorganisms. [2] Several additional genera and species are known from the fossil record. [3] [4] Nosodendridae is considered to be an isolated lineage within Polyphaga, being the sister group to the clade containing Staphyliniformia, Bostrichoidea and Cucujiformia. [5]

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Genera and species

Basinosa Tihelka, Huang & Cai, 2020
Mesonosa Tihelka et al., 2021
Nosodendron Latreille, 1804
Nosoglobulus (Háva, 2003)
Nosotetocus Scudder, 1892

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References

  1. Hava, J. (2010). "World Catalogue of the Nosodendridae (Coleoptera). Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine " Retrieved on 21 May 2012.
  2. Leschen, Richard A. B. and Beutel, Rolf G.. "5.2. Nosodendridae Erichson, 1846". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 185-190.
  3. Tihelka, E.; Li, Y.-D.; Huang, D.-Y.; Cai, C.-Y. (2021). "Are wounded-tree beetles living fossils? A new nosodendrid genus from Burmese amber with bilobed tarsi (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae)". Palaeoentomology. 4 (1): 50–56. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.1.10. S2CID   233894693.
  4. Li, Y.-D.; Tihelka, E.; Dahan, L.; Huang, D.-Y.; Cai, C.-Y. (2021). "On the Nosodendridae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Nosodendroidea)". Zootaxa. 5082 (3): 223–244. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.3.2 . PMID   35390968.
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