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Micromalthidae

Description

The telephone-pole beetle (Micromalthus debilis) is a beetle native to the eastern United States, and the only living representative of the otherwise extinct family Micromalthidae (i.e., a "living fossil").


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromalthidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4743https://www.gbif.org/species/4743
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)69176https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69176
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Micromalthidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-ColeopteridaKukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
orderColeopteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
familyMicromalthidaeBarber 1913
Common Nametelephone pole beetle
Scientific NameMicromalthidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Micromalthidaefamilybelongs to Cupedoideastated without evidenceCrowson, 1981
Micromalthidaefamilybelongs to Archostematastated without evidenceCarpenter, 1992
Micromalthidaefamilybelongs to Archostematastated with evidenceKirejtshuk et al., 2010
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)7
Extant Size (PBDB)3 (43%)
First Recorded Appearance130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)H. S. Barber. 1913. The remarkable life-history of a new family (Micromalthidae) of beetle. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26:185-190
Common Name(s) Telephone Pole Beetle, Micromalthid Beetles, Telephone-pole Beetles
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromalthidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Archaeomalthus
genus		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Cretomalthus ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Micromalthus
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		655.8 Ma
Eocene		0 Ma
Extant

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1913Micromalthidae Barber p. 185
1981Micromalthidae Crowson p. 694
1992Micromalthidae Carpenter
1995Micromalthidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2010Micromalthidae Kirejtshuk et al.
2011Micromalthidae Bouchard et al.

References

Crowson R. A. (1981) The Biology of the Coleoptera, Academic Press, New York
Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655
Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006
Kirejtshuk A. G., Nel A., et al (2010) New Archostemata (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the French Paleocene and Early Eocene, with a note on the composition of the suborder, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 1-2, 216-227
Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - 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
Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Philips, T. Keith, and Daniel K. Young / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., and Michael C. Thomas, eds., 2001: Family 2. Micromalthidae Barber, 1913. American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. 22-23. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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