Psyllototus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
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]
The genus includes four species: