Orsodacnidae
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| Orsodacnidae Temporal range:
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| Orsodacne cerasi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Superfamily: | Chrysomeloidea |
| Family: | Orsodacnidae Thomson, 1859 |
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The Orsodacnidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae. It is the smallest of the chrysomeloid families in North America;[1] Oxypeltidae is smaller, with only three species in South America. A fossil species of Aulacoscelis is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Santana Group of Brazil.[2]
Subfamilies and genera
[edit]- Subfamily Aulacoscelidinae
- Subfamily Orsodacninae
References
[edit]- ^ Shawn M. Clark and Edward G. Riley. "123. ORSODACNIDAE Thompson 1859". American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea. Vol. 2. CRC. pp. 613–615. doi:10.1201/9781420041231.ch8 (inactive 2024-11-12).
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ Legalov, A. A. (2021-05-20). "First record of orsodacnid leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Orsodacnidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil". Historical Biology. 34 (3): 453–457. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1929204. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 236395989.
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