Jurasaidae is a
family of
elateroid beetles known from around a half-dozen species in two genera found the Brazilian
Atlantic rainforest including drier transitional areas bordering the
Caatinga. All known species have
neotenic larva-like females and normal males, similar to some other elateroids. They occur in the soil horizon immediately under leaf litter, with the larvae likely being fungivorous, consuming the fluids of fungal hyphae.[1][2][3][4]
^Rosa, S.P., Costa, C., Kramp, K., Kundrata, R. (2020) Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: the discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females. Sci Rep 10, 1544.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58416-6.
^Nunes, J.P., Nascimento, M., Pereira-Colavite, A. (2023) A new species of Jurasai Rosa et al., 2020 and the first record of the family Jurasaidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in the northern Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 5323 (4): 524–534.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5323.4.4.