Paleomolpus

Paleomolpus
Temporal range: Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Chrysomelidae
Tribe:Eumolpini
Genus:Paleomolpus
Nadein, 2015[1]
Species: P. hirtus
Binomial name
Paleomolpus hirtus
Nadein, 2015[1]

Paleomolpus is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Paleomolpus hirtus. It is known from late Eocene amber from Denmark.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.