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Throscidae
Throscidae is a family of elateroid beetles found worldwide (except New Zealand) with around 150 species in 5 extant genera. The larvae are soil-dwelling, siphoning fluid from mycorrhizae attached to trees. The adults are short-lived, with the adult males being noted for a complex mating dance. Like some other elateroids, they are capable of clicking.Muona, Jyrki and Lawrence, John F.. "4.6. Throscidae Laporte, 1840". ''Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim)'', edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 69-74. Genera * ''Aulonothroscus'' Horn, 1890 * '' Cryptophthalma'' Cobos, 1982 * ''Pactopus'' LeConte, 1868 * '' Potergus'' Bonvouloir, 1871 * ''Trixagus'' Kugelann, 1794 Fossil genera * †'' Jaira'' Muona 1993 Baltic amber, Eocene * †'' Potergosoma'' Kovalev and Kirejtshuk 2013 Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian) * †'' Rhomboaspis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elateroidea
The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species. Description Elateroidea is a morphologically diverse group, including hard-bodied beetles with 5 abdominal ventrites, soft-bodied beetles with 7-8 ventrites connected with membranes (formerly known as cantharoids), and beetles with intermediate forms. They have a range of sizes and colours, but in terms of shape, they are usually narrow and parallel-sided as adults. Many of the sclerotised elateroids (Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae) have a clicking mechanism. This is a peg on the prothorax which fits into a cavity in the mesothorax. When a click beetle bends its body, the peg snaps into the cavity, causing the beetle's body to straighten so suddenly that it jumps into the air. Most beetles capable of bioluminescence are in the Elateroidea, in the families Lampyridae (~2000 specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulonothroscus
''Aulonothroscus'' is a genus of small false click beetles in the family Throscidae Throscidae is a family of elateroid beetles found worldwide (except New Zealand) with around 150 species in 5 extant genera. The larvae are soil-dwelling, siphoning fluid from mycorrhizae attached to trees. The adults are short-lived, with the .... There are more than 20 described species in ''Aulonothroscus''. Species These 26 species belong to the genus ''Aulonothroscus'': * '' Aulonothroscus bicarinatus'' Fleutiaux, 1911 * '' Aulonothroscus brevicollis'' (Bonvouloir, 1859) * '' Aulonothroscus calocerus'' (Bonvouloir, 1860) * '' Aulonothroscus constrictor'' (Say, 1839) * '' Aulonothroscus convergens'' (Horn, 1885) * '' Aulonothroscus detritus'' Blanchard, 1917 * '' Aulonothroscus distans'' Blanchard, 1917 * '' Aulonothroscus elongatulus'' (Wollaston, 1865) * '' Aulonothroscus grancanariae'' (Franz, 1982) * '' Aulonothroscus integer'' (Wollaston, 1857) * '' Aulonothroscus laticeps'' Blancha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pactopus
''Pactopus'' is a genus of small false click beetles in the family Throscidae. There are about six described species in ''Pactopus''. Species These six species belong to the genus ''Pactopus'': * '' Pactopus americanus'' Wickham, 1914 * '' Pactopus avitus'' Britton, 1960 * '' Pactopus fafneri'' Muona, 1993 * '' Pactopus fasolti'' Muona, 1993 * '' Pactopus frohi'' * '' Pactopus horni'' LeConte, 1868 *†''Pactopus burmensis'' Muona 2019 Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ..., Myanmar, Cenomanian References Further reading * * Elateroidea Articles created by Qbugbot {{elateroidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trixagus
''Trixagus'' is a genus of small false click beetles in the family Throscidae Throscidae is a family of elateroid beetles found worldwide (except New Zealand) with around 150 species in 5 extant genera. The larvae are soil-dwelling, siphoning fluid from mycorrhizae attached to trees. The adults are short-lived, with the .... There are more than 30 described species in ''Trixagus''. Species These 32 species belong to the genus ''Trixagus'': * '' Trixagus acutus'' (Horn, 1890) * '' Trixagus algiricus'' (Bonvouloir, 1861) * '' Trixagus asiaticus'' (Bonvouloir, 1859) * '' Trixagus atticus'' Reitter, 1921 * '' Trixagus bachofeni'' Reitter, 1905 * '' Trixagus carinicollis'' (Schaeffer, 1916) * '' Trixagus carinifrons'' (Bonvouloir, 1859) * '' Trixagus chevrolati'' (Bonvouloir, 1859) * '' Trixagus cobosi'' Yensen, 1980 * '' Trixagus dermestoides'' (Linnaeus, 1767) * '' Trixagus duvalii'' (Bonvouloir, 1859) * '' Trixagus elateroides'' (Heer, 1841) * '' Trixagus extraneus'' Fisher, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its alleged role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found within the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within northern Myanmar. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the stratigraphic column deposited during the corresponding age. Both age and stage bear the same name. As a unit of geologic time measure, the Cenomanian Age spans the time between 100.5 and 93.9 million years ago (Mya). In the geologic timescale, it is preceded by the Albian and is followed by the Turonian. The Upper Cenomanian starts around at 95 Mya. The Cenomanian is coeval with the Woodbinian of the regional timescale of the Gulf of Mexico and the early part of the Eaglefordian of the regional timescale of the East Coast of the United States. At the end of the Cenomanian, an anoxic event took place, called the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event or the "Bonarelli event", that is associated with a minor extinction event for marine spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
