Peltis
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| Peltis Temporal range:
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| Peltis grossa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cleroidea |
| Family: | Peltidae Latreille, 1806 |
| Genus: | Peltis Müller, 1764 |
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Peltis is a genus of beetles found in North America and Europe, and the sole member of the family Peltidae, formerly included in the Trogossitidae.[1][2][3][4] Members of this genus are dark, averaging from brown, to dark brown, to black. They are small, wide, and flat-bodied with wide, ridged elytra. Fossil species of this genus are known from the Eocene aged Florissant Formation of the United States, as well as the Baltic amber of Europe.
Other species considered to belong to the family include from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and from the Early Cretaceous aged , China.
References[]
- ^ Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. and Leschen, R.A. (2019) Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Syst Entomol, 44: 527-558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338
- ^ "Peltis (1PETSG)[Overview] : EPPO Global Database". gd.eppo.int. EPPO Code, EPPO. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ Prochazka, Jiri; Kment, Petr; Németh, Tamás; Kolibac, Jiri (2017-08-16). "New data on the distribution of Peltis grossa and P. gigantea (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)". Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae. pp. 25–33. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ "Peltis grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.gbif.org. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
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