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Lymexylidae

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Description

The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7837	https://www.gbif.org/species/7837
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	346359	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=346359

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Lymexylidae

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	Lymexyloidea	Fleming 1821
family	Lymexylidae	Fleming 1821

Common Name

ship-timber beetle

Scientific Name

Lymexylidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lymexylidae	family	belongs to Lymexyloidea	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Lymexylidae	family	belongs to Lymexyloidea	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

10 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

122 - 112 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56

Common Name(s)

Ship-timber Beetles, Ship-timber Beetle, Ship Timber Beetles, Varvsflugor

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Atractocerinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		6	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Hylecoetinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	12.7 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lymexylinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Melittommatinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Arractocetus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Atractocerus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Australymexylon genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cratoatractocerus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Elateroides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Fusicornis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hymaloxylon genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lymexylon genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Melittomma genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Melittommopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ponomarenkylon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Protomelittomma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Raractocetus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Urtea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lymexylonidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Lymexylonidae
Atractoceridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Atractoceridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1995	Lymexylidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011	Lymexylidae Bouchard et al.
2019	Lymexylidae Yamamoto p. 3

References

Fleming J. Insecta, Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5, 41-56

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

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

Yamamoto S. (2019) Fossil evidence of elytra reduction in ship-timber beetles, Scientific Reports 9 4938, 1-10

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

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)

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

Parker 82, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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