Palophaginae

Palophaginae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Palophagus bunyae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Megalopodidae
Subfamily:	Palophaginae Kuschel & May, 1990 [1]

Palophaginae is a small beetle subfamily within the family Megalopodidae. It contains two tribes, with five species in four genera: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Tribe Palophagini Kuschel & May, 1990
  • Genus Cucujopsis Crowson, 1946
    • Cucujopsis setifer Crowson, 1946
  • Genus Palophagoides Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1996
    • Palophagoides vargasorum Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1996
  • Genus Palophagus Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
    • Palophagus australiensis Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
    • Palophagus bunyae Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
• Tribe †Lobanoviellini Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021 ^[4] Baltic amber, Eocene
  • Genus † Lobanoviella Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021
    • † Lobanoviella andreyi Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021

References

1. G. Kuschel; B. M. May (1990). "Palophaginae, a new subfamily for leaf-beetles, feeding as adult and larva on Araucarian pollen in Australia (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae)" . Invertebrate Systematics. 665 (6): 697–719. doi:10.1071/IT9890697.
2. "Palophaginae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 30 August 2021.
3. Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M. (2018). "Checklist of the family Megalopodidae Latreille (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea); a synthesis of its diversity and distribution". Zootaxa . 4434 (2): 265–302. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.3. PMID   30313186. S2CID   52977359.
4. Kirejtshuk, A. G.; Reid, C. A. M. (2022). "Lobanoviella andreyi, new genus and species of Lobanoviellini trib. nov. in the subfamily Palophaginae (Coleoptera, Megalopodidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber, with discussion of similarity with Phloeostichidae" . Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 34 (9): 1894–1900. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1987428. S2CID   243581689.