Rhinorhipus

Rhinorhipus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Superfamily:	Rhinorhipoidea
Family:	Rhinorhipidae
Genus:	Rhinorhipus; Lawrence, 1988
Species:	R. tamborinensis
Binomial name
	Rhinorhipus tamborinensis; Lawrence, 1988

The beetle genus Rhinorhipus contains a single species, Rhinorhipus tamborinensis from Queensland, Australia.

Taxonomy[]

Rhinorhipus is the sole member of the family Rhinorhipidae. The family is in turn the sole member of the superfamily Rhinorhipoidea, considered a "living fossil" taxon dating to an Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic split from other extant beetle lineages.^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Andujar, C. et al. Genome sequencing of Rhinorhipus Lawrence exposes an early branch of the Coleoptera. Front. Zool. 15, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0262-0
^ Lawrence, JF (1988). "Rhinorhipidae, a new beetle family from Australia, with comments on the phylogeny of the elateriformia". Invertebrate Systematics. 2: 1. doi:10.1071/IT9880001.

[1] Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Andujar, C. et al. Genome sequencing of Rhinorhipus Lawrence exposes an early branch of the Coleoptera. Front. Zool. 15, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0262-0

[2] Lawrence, JF (1988). "Rhinorhipidae, a new beetle family from Australia, with comments on the phylogeny of the elateriformia". Invertebrate Systematics. 2: 1. doi:10.1071/IT9880001.

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