Psyllototus

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Psyllototus
Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Psyllototus
Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
Type species
Psyllototus progenitor
Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010

Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetles described from the late Eocene Rovno amber of Ukraine, [1] and from the Baltic amber of Russia and Denmark. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor. [1] In 2016, a newly described extant flea beetle genus from Bolivia, Chanealtica , was found to be most similar to Psyllototus, based on the characters available for observation. [2]

Species

The genus includes four species:

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References

  1. 1 2 Konstantin Nadein; Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..772N. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x. S2CID   85383059.
  2. Konstantinov, Alexander S. (2016). "Possible living fossil in Bolivia: A new genus of flea beetles with modified hind legs (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)". ZooKeys (592): 103–120. Bibcode:2016ZooK..592..103K. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.592.8180 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   4926638 . PMID   27408546.
  3. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2013). "A second species of Psyllototus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae:Alticini) from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 3609 (5): 465–470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.5.2. PMID   24699610.
  4. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2014). "Psyllototus groehni sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a new species of the palaeoendemic genus from Baltic amber" (PDF). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 14 (2): 163–166.
  5. Nadein, Konstantin S.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "New Late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers". Papers in Palaeontology . 2 (1): 117–137. doi:10.1002/spp2.1034. S2CID   86059856.