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Orsodacnidae
Temporal range: Aptian–Recent
Orsodacne cerasi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Orsodacnidae
Thomson, 1859
Subfamilies

Aulacoscelidinae
Orsodacninae

The Orsodacnidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae. It is the smallest of the Chrysomeloid families in North America; [1] Oxypeltidae is smaller, with only three species in South America. A fossil species of Aulacoscelis is known from the Early Cretaceous ( Aptian- Albian) Santana Group of Brazil. [2]

Genera

References

  1. ^ Shawn M. Clark and Edward G. Riley. "123. ORSODACNIDAE Thompson 1859". American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea. Vol. 2. CRC. pp. 613–615. doi: 10.1201/9781420041231.ch8.
  2. ^ Legalov, A. A. (2021-05-20). "First record of orsodacnid leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Orsodacnidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil". Historical Biology: 1–5. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1929204. ISSN  0891-2963. S2CID  236395989.