A New Mesozoic Species of Soft-Bodied Plant Beetle (Coleoptera: Dascillidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China with a Review of Fossil Dascillidae

Zhenyu Jin; Adam Śslipiński; Hong Pang; Dong Ren

doi:10.3161/000345413X672492

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1 September 2013 A New Mesozoic Species of Soft-Bodied Plant Beetle (Coleoptera: Dascillidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China with a Review of Fossil Dascillidae

Zhenyu Jin, Adam Śslipiński, Hong Pang, Dong Ren

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Annales Zoologici, 63(3):501-509 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3161/000345413X672492

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A new genus, Cretodascillus gen. nov. in the family Dascillidae with a new species C. sinensis sp. nov., is described from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. The fossil taxa described in Dascillidae have been critically reviewed and the Upper Triassic Apheloodes Dunstan, 1923 (type species A. obliquum Dunstan, 1923) and Leioodes Dunstan, 1923 (type species L. planum Dunstan, 1923) are removed from Dascillidae to Coleoptera incertae sedis, the Miocene Protoacnaeus Wickham, 1914 (type species P. tenuicornis Wickham, 1914) is transferred to Psephenidae and Miocyphon Wickham, 1914 (type species M. punctulatus Wickham, 1914) to Scirtidae.

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Zhenyu Jin, Adam Śslipiński, Hong Pang, and Dong Ren "A New Mesozoic Species of Soft-Bodied Plant Beetle (Coleoptera: Dascillidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China with a Review of Fossil Dascillidae," Annales Zoologici 63(3), 501-509, (1 September 2013). https://doi.org/10.3161/000345413X672492

Received: 18 July 2013; Accepted: 12 August 2013; Published: 1 September 2013

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