Taphioporus

Taphioporus; Temporal range: Upper Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Euryopini
Genus:	†Taphioporus; Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013
Type species
	; Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013

Taphioporus is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Baltic and Rovno amber from the upper Eocene.

The generic name is a combination of the generic names Taphius (the old name for Pathius) and Cleoporus.^[1]

Species[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2013). "On the taxonomic position of new taxa of the subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber". Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews. 6 (1–2): 163–172. doi:10.1163/18749836-06021063.
^ ^a ^b Bukejs, Andris; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "Two new species of the genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Baltic amber" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4032 (4): 395–406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4032.4.4. PMID 26624375.
^ Nadein, Konstantin S.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "New Late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (1): 117–137. doi:10.1002/spp2.1034.

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