Rhinorhipus
The beetle genus Rhinorhipus contains a single species, Rhinorhipus tamborinensis from Queensland, Australia, and is the sole member of the family Rhinorhipidae, which is in turn the sole member of the superfamily Rhinorhipoidea, considered a "living fossil" taxon dating to an Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic split from other extant beetle lineages.[1][2]
Rhinorhipus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
Superfamily: | Rhinorhipoidea |
Family: | Rhinorhipidae |
Genus: | Rhinorhipus Lawrence, 1988 |
Species: | R. tamborinensis |
Binomial name | |
Rhinorhipus tamborinensis Lawrence, 1988 | |
References
- Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Andujar, C. et al. Genome sequencing of Rhinorhipus Lawrence exposes an early branch of the Coleoptera. Front. Zool. 15, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0262-0
- Lawrence, JF (1988). "Rhinorhipidae, a new beetle family from Australia, with comments on the phylogeny of the elateriformia". Invertebrate Systematics. 2: 1. doi:10.1071/IT9880001.
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