Jacobsoniidae

Jacobsoniidae is a family of Staphylinoidea[1] beetles. The larvae and adults live under bark, in plant litter, fungi, bat guano and rotten wood.[2] It is a small family with 28 described species in three genera:[3]

Jacobsoniidae
Temporal range: latest Albian - Present
~
Saphophagus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Jacobsoniidae
Heller, 1926
Synonyms
  • Sarothriidae Crowson, 1955
  • Derolathriinae Sen Gupta, 1979

Description

Members of this family have a small body size (0.7-2.1mm in length).[2] Their bodies are narrow, and are four times as long as they are wide.[2] They are often a yellowish-brown in color.[2]

Distribution

Members of this family have been found in Alabama, Florida, South America, Central America, Polynesia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia.[2][3]

Taxonomy
  • Genus Sarothrias Grouvelle, 1918
    • Sarothrias amabilis Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias audax Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias bournei Ślipiński, 1986
    • †Sarothrias cretaceus Cai et al., 2017 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[4]
    • Sarothrias crowsoni Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias dimerus (Heller, 1926)
    • Sarothrias eximius Grouvelle, 1918
    • Sarothrias fijianus Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias hygrophilus Pal, 1998
    • Sarothrias indicus Dajoz, 1978
    • Sarothrias lawrencei Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias morokanus Poggi, 1991
    • Sarothrias pacificus Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias papuanus Ślipiński, 1986
    • Sarothrias sinicus Bi & Chen, 2015
    • Sarothrias songi Yin & Bi, 2018
  • Genus Saphophagus Sharp, 1886
    • Saphophagus minutus Sharp, 1886
  • Genus Derolathrus Sharp, 1908

References
  1. Zhang, S. Q.; Che, L. H.; Li, Y.; Liang, D.; Pang, H.; Ślipiński, A.; Zhang, P. (2018). "Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 205. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02644-4. PMC 5768713. PMID 29335414.
  2. Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  3. Háva, Jiří (2022). "World catalogue of the family Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea)" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Cai, Chenyang; Ślipiński, Adam; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Yin, Ziwei; Zhuo, De; Huang, Diying (2 May 2017). "The first Mesozoic Jacobson's beetle (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber and biogeographical stasis". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (7): 543–550. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1314388. S2CID 91087174.
  5. Yamamoto, Shûhei; Takahashi, Yui; Parker, Joseph (May 2017). "Evolutionary stasis in enigmatic jacobsoniid beetles". Gondwana Research. 45: 275–281. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.12.008.
  6. Tihelka, Erik; Peris, David; Cai, Chenyang; Perrichot, Vincent (20 January 2022). "A Jacobson's beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae)". Geodiversitas. 44 (3): 47–56. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a3. S2CID 246297785.
  7. Cai, Chenyang; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Liu, Ye; Huang, Diying (28 March 2016). "First fossil jacobsoniid beetle (Coleoptera): Derolathrus groehni n. sp. from Eocene Baltic amber". Journal of Paleontology. 89 (5): 762–767. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.65. S2CID 131477117.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.