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Boganiidae

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Description

Boganiidae is a family of beetles, in the suborder Polyphaga.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4290636	https://www.gbif.org/species/4290636
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	69445	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69445

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Boganiidae

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	Boganiidae	Sen Gupta and Crowson 1966

Scientific Name

Boganiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Boganiidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated with evidence	Sen Gupta and Crowson, 1966
Boganiidae	family	belongs to Clavicornia	stated without evidence	Crowson, 1981
Boganiidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Boganiidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated with evidence	Robertson et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. Sen Gupta and R. A. Crowson. 1966. A new family of cucujoid beetles, based on six Australian and one New Zealand genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 9:61-85

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Boganiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Paracucujinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Afroboganium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Athertonium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boganium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dzumacium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hobartius genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hydnobioides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Metacucujus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeoboganium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Paracucujus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Boganiidae Sen Gupta and Crowson p. 63
1981	Boganiidae Crowson p. 697
1995	Boganiidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2015	Boganiidae Robertson et al.
2017	Boganiidae Liu et al. p. 352

References

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

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

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

Liu Z. H., Ślipiński A., et al (2017) Palaeoboganium gen. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of China (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Boganiidae): the first cycad pollinators?, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16, 351-360

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

Robertson, James A., Adam Slipinski, Matthew Moulton, Floyd W. Shockley, Adriano Giorgi, et al., 2015: Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology, vol. 40, no. 4. 745-778. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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

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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