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Electrentomidae ✝

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Description

Electrentomidae is an extinct family of barklice, booklice, and parasitic lice in the order Psocodea. There are about six genera and seven described species in Electrentomidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4298939	https://www.gbif.org/species/4298939
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	220559	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=220559

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Psocodea : Electrentomidae

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
order	Psocodea
suborder	Troctomorpha
infraorder	Amphientometae
superfamily	Electrentomoidea	Enderlein 1911
family	Electrentomidae	Enderlein 1911

Scientific Name

Electrentomidae

Name Published In

Enderlein. 1911. Die fossilen Copeognathen und ihre Phylogenie. Palaeontographica 58

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Electrentomidae	subfamily	belongs to Amphientomidae	stated with evidence	Enderlein, 1911
Electrentomidae	family	belongs to Electrentomoidea	stated with evidence	Lienhard and Smithers, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Enderlein. 1911. Die fossilen copeognathan und ihre phylogenie. Palaeontographica 58:279-360

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Electrentomum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Eomanicapsocus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Eoprotroctopsocus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Manicapsocidus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paramesopsocus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Parelectrentomum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Paramesopsocidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Psocodea : Paramesopsocidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1911	Electrentominae Enderlein p. 337
2002	Electrentomidae Lienhard and Smithers
2008	Paramesopsocidae Azar et al. p. 461
2013	Electrentomidae Mockford et al. p. 12

References

Enderlein G. (1911) Die fossilen copeognathan und ihre phylogenie, Palaeontographica 58, 279-360

Lienhard C., Smithers C. N. (2002) Psocoptera (Insecta): world catalogue and bibliography, Instrumenta Biodiversitatis 5, 1-492

Azar D., Hajar L., et al (2008) Paramesopsocidae, a new Mesozoic psocid family (Insecta: Psocodea "Psocoptera": Psocomorpha), Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 44, 459-470

Mockford E. L., Lienhard C., et al (2013) Revised classification of "Psocoptera" from Cretaceous amber, a reassessment of published information, Insecta Matsumurana 69, 1-26

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

http://psocodea.speciesfile.org/ (extant) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Lienhard & Courtenay Smithers. 2002. Psocoptera (Insecta) World Catalogue and Bibliography. Psocoptera (Insecta) World Catalogue and Bibliography, Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland - via Psocodea Species File

Smithers, Courtenay. 1972. The classification and phylogeny of the Psocoptera. Australian Museum Memoirs 14:338 - via Psocodea Species File

Lienhard, Charles, and Courtenay N. Smithers, 2002: Psocoptera (Insecta): World Catalogue and Bibliography. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis, vol. 5. xli + 745. - 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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