Boganiidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cucujoidea |
| Family: | Boganiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 |
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Boganiidae is a family of beetles, in the suborder Polyphaga.[1][2] Members of the family are found in southern Africa, Australia and New Caledonia. Adults and larvae are pollenivorous, feeding on the pollen of cycads and Myrtaceae, Meliaceae, Cunoniaceae and Elaeocarpaceae angiosperms.[3] and act as pollinators for cycads Encephalartos and Macrozamia respectively. This association with cycads goes back to at least the Mid-Cretaceous, with an extinct form being found with preserved cycad pollen in 99 million year old Burmese amber.[4]
Subfamilies and genera[]
- † Liu et al. 2017[5] Daohugou, China, Callovian
- Subfamily Boganiinae Sen Gupta and Crowson 1966
- Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986 Africa
- Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 Australia
- † Cai and Huang 2018[6] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986
- Crowson, 1990 Australia
- † Cai & Escalona, 2018[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- Escalona, Lawrence, Wanat & Ślipiński, 2015 New Caledonia
- Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986 Africa
- Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 Australia
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Cucujoidea - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
- ^ Escalona, Hermes E.; Lawrence, John F.; Wanat, Marek; Ślipiński, Adam (July 2015). "Phylogeny and placement of Boganiidae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) with a review of Australian and New Caledonian taxa: Phylogeny of Boganiidae". Systematic Entomology. 40 (3): 628–651. doi:10.1111/syen.12126.
- ^ a b Cai, Chenyang; Escalona, Hermes E.; Li, Liqin; Yin, Ziwei; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S. (September 2018). "Beetle Pollination of Cycads in the Mesozoic". Current Biology. 28 (17): 2806–2812.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.036.
- ^ Liu, Zhenhua; Ślipiński, Adam; Lawrence, John F.; Ren, Dong; Pang, Hong (2018-03-16). "Palaeoboganium gen. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of China (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Boganiidae): the first cycad pollinators?". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 351–360. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1304459. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ^ Cai, Chenyang; Huang, Diying (February 2019). "First boganiine beetle in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Boganiidae)". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130 (1): 81–86. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.09.004. hdl:1983/aa67ee65-98bb-475c-9b23-5fb03e8715d6.
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