Biology:Taphioporus

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Short description: Extinct genus of leaf beetles

Taphioporus
Temporal range: Upper Eocene
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. 2.0 2.1 Bukejs, Andris; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "Two new species of the genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Baltic amber". Zootaxa 4032 (4): 395–406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4032.4.4. PMID 26624375. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z04032p406f.pdf. 
  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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