Jurodidae

Jurodidae is a family of beetle that was originally described from a fossil species Jurodes ignoramus Ponomarenko, 1985. In 1996, a species Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae representing the only living representative of this family was discovered in the Sikhote-Alin mountains in Siberia. Sikhotealinia and Jurodes are considered as a sister group to all other archostematan beetles.[1]

Jurodidae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic-Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Archostemata
Family: Jurodidae
Ponomarenko, 1985
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Sikhotealiniidae

Subdivision

  • โ€ Jurodes Ponomarenko 1985
    • Jurodes ignoramus Ponomarenko, 1985 Ichetuy Formation, Russia, Oxfordian
    • Jurodes minor Ponomarenko, 1990 Glushkovo Formation, Russia, Tithonian
    • Jurodes daohugouensis Yan, Wang, Ponomarenko & Zhang, 2014 Dahougou, China, Callovian
    • Jurodes pygmaeus Yan, Wang, Ponomarenko & Zhang, 2014 Dahougou, China, Callovian
    • Jurodes shartegiensis Yan 2014, Shar Teeg, Mongolia, Tithonian
  • Sikhotealinia Lafer, 1996
    • Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae Lafer, 1996

References

  1. Yan, Evgeny V.; Wang, Bo; Ponomarenko, Alexander G.; Zhang, Haichun (2014). "The most mysterious beetles: Jurassic Jurodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from China" (PDF). Gondwana Research. 25 (1): 214โ€“225. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2013.04.002.
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