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Kateretidae

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Description

Kateretidae is a family of short-winged flower beetles in the suborder Polyphaga. There are about 11 genera and at least 40 described species in Kateretidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateretidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4451320	https://www.gbif.org/species/4451320
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	213180	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213180

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Kateretidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Cucujoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Kateretidae	(Kirkby 1837)

Scientific Name

Kateretidae

Name Published In

Nomenclator zoologicus, fasc. 11, p. 30

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kateretidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

8 (42%)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Bouchard, Y. Bousquet, and A. E. Davies, M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. F. Lawrence, C. H. C. Lyal, A. F. Newton, C. A. M. Reid, M. Schmitt, A. lipiski, A. B. T. Smith. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88:1-972

Common Name(s)

Kullerglansbaggar

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateretidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amartus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Anamartus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anthonaeus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreades genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachyleptus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypterolus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Cercus genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Cretaretes ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Eoceniretes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	55.8 Ma Eocene
Furcalabratum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Heterhelus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Hetherelus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kateretes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Lebanoretes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Neobrachypterus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Taiwanoheterhelus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Catheretidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Catheretidae
Brachypteridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Brachypteridae
Cateretidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Cateretidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1837	Cateretinae Kirkby
1981	Cateretinae Crowson p. 697
2011	Kateretidae Bouchard et al. p. 365
2014	Kateretidae Cline et al.
2015	Kateretidae Robertson et al.
2017	Kateretidae Poinar and Brown p. 241
2019	Kateretidae Peris and Jelínek p. 3

References

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Crowson R. A. (1981) The Biology of the Coleoptera, Academic Press, New York

Cline A. R., Smith T. R., et al (2014) Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification and formalization of the family Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), Systematic Entomology 39, 758-772

Robertson J. A., Ślipiński A., et al (2015) Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia), Systematic Entomology 40, 745-778

Poinar G., Brown A. E. (2017) Furcalabratum burmanicum gen. et sp. nov., a short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber\r\n, Cretaceous Research 84, 240-244

Peris D., Jelínek J. (2019) Syninclusions of two new species of short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar), Cretaceous Research 106, 104264

Parsons CT (1943) A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 121-278. - via Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition.

European Environment Agency: EUNIS - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. 88: 1-972. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Silfverberg, H. (2004) Enumeratio nova Coleopterorum Fennoscandiae, Daniae et Baltiae. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Cline, Andrew R., Trevor R. Smith, Kelly Miller, Matthew Moulton, Michael Whiting, and Paolo Audisio, 2014: Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification and formalization of the family Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology, vol. 39, no. 4. 758-772. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Cline, Andrew R., 2006: Commentary on priority of the family-group name Kateretidae Erichson (Cucujoidea). The Coleopterists' Bulletin, vol. 60, no. 3. 271-272. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1916 Brachypterinae Zwick, 1973 (Insecta, Plecoptera): spelling emended to Brachypterainae, so removing the homonymy with Brachypterinae Erichson, [1845] (Insecta, Coleoptera); Kateretidae Erichson in Agassiz, [1846]: given precedence over Brachypterinae Erichson.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56(1), 82-86 (1999) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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