Taphioporus

Taphioporus
Temporal range: Upper Eocene
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Chrysomelidae
Tribe:Euryopini
Genus:†Taphioporus
Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]
Type species
Taphioporus balticus
Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]

Taphioporus is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Baltic and Rovno amber from the upper Eocene.

The generic name is a combination of the generic names Taphius (the old name for Pathius) and Cleoporus.[1]

Species

  • †Taphioporus balticus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]
  • †Taphioporus carsteni Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015[2]
  • †Taphioporus rovnoi Moseyko & Perkovsky, 2015[3]
  • †Taphioporus rufous Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2013). "On the taxonomic position of new taxa of the subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber". Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews. 6 (1–2): 163–172. doi:10.1163/18749836-06021063.
  2. 1 2 Bukejs, Andris; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "Two new species of the genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Baltic amber" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4032 (4): 395–406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4032.4.4. PMID 26624375.
  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.


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