Palaeoleptochromus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: Clidicini
Genus: †Palaeoleptochromus
Species: P. schaufussi

Name

†Palaeoleptochromus O'Keefe in O'Keefe, Pike & Poinar, 1997

• Type species: Palaeoleptochromus schaufussi O'Keefe, 1997, fixed by original designation.

References

Primary references

• O'Keefe, S.T., Pike, T. & Poinar, G. 1997. Palaeoleptochromus schaufussi (gen. nov., sp. nov.), a new antlike stone beetle (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) from Canadian Cretaceous amber. Canadian entomologist 129: 379–385. DOI: 10.4039/Ent129379-3

Additional references

• Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Yamamoto, S. & Takahashi, Y. 2018. Evolution of Mastigitae: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils crucial for reclassification of extant tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(3): 623–652. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page.  [remarks; p. 50]