Artematopodidae is a family of soft-bodied plant beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea. They are mostly found in understory forest foliage. The life history of the group is obscure, larvae of the genera Eurypogon and Macropogon likely feed on moss, while the larvae of Artematopus have been fed insect remains. The oldest fossils of the family date to the Middle Jurassic.[1]
†Carinibipogonia Li et al, 2022 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)[3]
†Forticatinius Tan & Ren, 2007 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)[4]
†Protartematopus Crowson, 1973
†Tarsomegamerus Zhang, 2005
Referencesedit
^ abCai, Chen-Yang; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Huang, Di-Ying (October 2015). "Jurassic artematopodid beetles and their implications for the early evolution of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera): Jurassic artematopodids from China". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 779–788. doi:10.1111/syen.12131. S2CID 85744105.
^Cai, Chenyang; Fu, Yanzhe; Huang, Diying (January 2020). "A large artematopodid beetle (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its systematic position". Cretaceous Research. 105: 103986. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.10.009. S2CID 134598400.
^Yu, Yali; Leschen, Richard A.B.; Ślipiński, Adam; Ren, Dong; Wang, Shuo; Pang, Hong (March 2021). "Mesozoic Cleroidea (Coleoptera): First record of mid-Cretaceous Lophocateridae from Burmese amber and notes on the disputed genera Cervicatinius Tan & Ren (Trogossitidae) and Forticatinius Tan & Ren (Artematopodidae)". Cretaceous Research. 119: 104680. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104680. S2CID 225142273.
Further readingedit
Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
Donald J. Borror; Roger Tory Peterson; Richard E. White (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.
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