Psyllototus
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]
| Psyllototus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
Species
The genus includes four species:
References
- 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. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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