Enigmatic Mesozoic Bark-Gnawing Beetles (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from the Jiulongshan Formation in China

Yu, Yali; Ślipiński, Adam; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Ren, Dong; Pang, Hong

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“…() dated the ancestor of Cleroidea near the Permian‐Triassic boundary (around 250 Ma). Fossil evidence for many cleroid groups date to mid‐Jurassic, including Lophocaterinae (or Decamerini) (Peris et al ., ; Yu et al ., , ), Prionoceridae (Liu et al ., ), Thanerocleridae (Yu et al ., ) and Cleridae (Kolibáč & Huang, ), but as yet no ancient Melyridae fossils have been described. These data, together with branching sequences in our work and previous studies, suggest that the more primitive cleroids were mainly fungus‐feeding, like other large groups of Coleoptera (Leschen & Buckley, ), and predatory followed by later shifts to flower‐feeding, especially in Melyridae.…”

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Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

Gimmel

Bocáková

Gunter

et al. 2019

Systematic Entomology

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The first thorough molecular phylogeny of the superfamily Cleroidea, represented by 377 taxa, and the first with an emphasis on Trogossitidae, was undertaken. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses were performed on a four-gene dataset (18S, 28S, cox1, cytb) of 395 taxa (along with 18 outgroups), including all 16 currently recognized families of Cleroidea and all current and formerly recognized tribes of Trogossitidae. The superfamily as a whole received strong support in Bayesian analyses. On the basis of phylogenetic results, 18 families in Cleroidea are recognized, including three taxa elevated to family for the first time and two reinstated families. The former tribe Rentoniini (Trogossitidae: Peltinae) was strongly supported as a monophyletic group apart from the remainder of Trogossitidae, and is herein elevated to family status, Rentoniidae stat.n. Protopeltis was also found to be an isolated lineage and becomes Protopeltidae stat.n. Peltini + Larinotini were recovered as a weakly supported sister grouping; Peltini (including only Peltis) becomes Peltidae stat.rest. The trogossitid subfamily Lophocaterinae, to the exclusion of Decamerini, formed a clade which is here designated Lophocateridae stat.rest. and sensu n. The Trogossitinae tribes Calityini, Egoliini (represented by Egolia) and Larinotini were recovered apart from core Trogossitidae but showed no strong affinities to other taxa or congruence between analyses; they are here conservatively retained in Trogossitidae as Calityinae stat.rest., Egoliinae stat.rest. and Larinotinae stat.rest. The genus Thymalus of the peltine tribe Thymalini was indicated with moderate to strong support as the sister group of the Decamerini (Trogossitidae: Lophocaterinae); together these represent Thymalidae stat.n. and sensu n. with subfamilies Decamerinae stat.rest. (new placement) and Thymalinae stat.n. The remainder of Trogossitinae, the tribes Trogossitini and Gymnochilini, formed a well-supported clade which comprises the Trogossitidae: Trogossitinae sensu n. The tribe Gymnochilini syn.n. is synonymized with Trogossitini. The monotypic family Phloiophilidae was recovered, contradicting a recent placement within Trogossitidae. The melyrid lineage was recovered with moderate (maximum likelihood) to strong (Bayesian analyses) support and includes the families Phycosecidae, Rhadalidae, Mauroniscidae, Prionoceridae and Melyridae (including Dasytidae and Malachiidae). The genus Dasyrhadus is tentatively transferred from Rhadalidae to Mauroniscidae. The genus Gietella, once proposed as a distinct family but recently placed within Dasytidae, was recovered as strongly sister to Rhadalidae sensu n., and we transfer it to that family as Gietellinae new placement. Attalomiminae (formerly Attalomimidae) syn.n. is synonymized with Melyridae: Malachiinae: Lemphini sensu n. Melyridae sensu n. includes only Dasytinae, Malachiinae and Melyrinae. Metaxina

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Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

Gimmel

Bocáková

Gunter

et al. 2019

Systematic Entomology

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“…Together with Melyridae, Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae, Cleridae are the fourth cleroid family to be found in the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China (Kolibáč, ; Yu et al. , , , ; Liu et al. , ).…”

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“…Unfortunately, the most recent database of fossil beetles (Smith & Marcot, ) does not include the earliest Jurassic records of Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae (Yu et al. , , ; Liu et al. , ) and these were also not used by McKenna et al.…”

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“…Chang et al, 2009;Yue et al, 2010;Pan et al, 2011;Fikáček et al, 2012;Cai et al, 2013Cai et al, , 2014bPeris et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014). Together with Melyridae, Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae, Cleridae are the fourth cleroid family to be found in the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China (Kolibáč, 2012;Yu et al, 2012Yu et al, , 2014Yu et al, , 2015Liu et al, 2015). Judging by fossil records, it may be assumed that the stem group of Cleroidea developed, together with many other polyphagan beetle families, at the latest during the early Jurassic; however, there may be a certain incongruence between 'origin' and subsequent 'diversification' within particular families (cf.…”

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“…The latter estimate proposes a mid-Jurassic origin of Cleroidea and Early or middle Cretaceous for Cleridae. Unfortunately, the most recent database of fossil beetles (Smith & Marcot, 2015) does not include the earliest Jurassic records of Prionoceridae and Trogossitidae (Yu et al, 2012(Yu et al, , 2014Liu et al, 2015) and these were also not used by McKenna et al (2015) for calibration. It is important to note that the Early Cretaceous Mathesius liaoningensis Kolibáč & Huang, 2011 was classified as Cleroidea incertae sedis by the authors, not within Cleridae as listed in the database by Smith & Marcot (2015).…”

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The oldest known clerid fossils from theMiddleJurassic ofChina, with a review ofCleridae systematics (Coleoptera)

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Huang

2016

Systematic Entomology

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Abstract. Three fossil beetles recorded from Inner Mongolia, China (Callovian, Middle Jurassic, approximately 165 Ma) are assigned to Cleridae and constitute the earliest known representatives of this family. Two of the fossils are described as Protoclerus korynetoides gen. et sp.n. and the third as Wangweiella calloviana gen. et sp.n. Ninety‐six morphological characters of the larvae and adults of 17 extant clerid representatives and seven cleroid families as outgroups were analysed under maximum parsimony with, and without, fossil species included in the matrix. The results indicate that Protoclerus gen.n. is a separate lineage within the family, whereas Wangweiella gen.n. is sister to the rest of Epiclininae. The resulting trees are compared with the most recent morphological and molecular phylogenies of Cleridae. The trees presented appear congruent with the latest molecular phylogenies. The evolution of Cleridae, as well as their biogeography and systematics, are briefly reviewed. A complete list of clerid fossil species described to date is provided. This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:32240D3D-2A7A-41F6-B485-A66F2265CB8A.

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Enigmatic Mesozoic Bark-Gnawing Beetles (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from the Jiulongshan Formation in China

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

The oldest known clerid fossils from theMiddleJurassic ofChina, with a review ofCleridae systematics (Coleoptera)

Coleoptera – Beetles

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