Peltis

Peltis is a genus of beetles found in North America and Europe, and the sole extant member of the family Peltidae, formerly included in the Trogossitidae.[1][2][3][4] Members of this genus are dark, averaging from brown, to dark brown, to black. They are small, wide, and flat-bodied with wide, ridged elytra. Fossil species of this genus are known from the Eocene aged Florissant Formation of the United States, as well as the Baltic amber of Europe.

Peltis
Temporal range:
Peltis grossa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cleroidea
Family: Peltidae
Latreille, 1806
Genus: Peltis
Müller, 1764
Synonyms
  • Ostoma Laicharting, 1781
  • Gaurambe Thomson, 1859

Peltis larvae feed on fungal hypae growing inside rotting wood. Larvae grow for two to three years before becoming adults.[5][6]

Other species considered to belong to the family include Juralithinus from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and Palaeoendomychus from the Early Cretaceous aged Laiyang Formation, China.[7]

References
  1. Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. and Leschen, R.A. (2019) Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Syst Entomol, 44: 527-558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338
  2. "Peltis (1PETSG)[Overview] : EPPO Global Database". gd.eppo.int. EPPO Code, EPPO. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  3. Prochazka, Jiri; Kment, Petr; Németh, Tamás; Kolibac, Jiri (2017-08-16). "New data on the distribution of Peltis grossa and P. gigantea (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)". Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae. pp. 25–33. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  4. "Peltis grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.gbif.org. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  5. PROCHÁZKA J., KMENT P., NÉMETH T. & KOLIBÁČ J. 2017: New data on the distribution of Peltis grossa and P. gigantea (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 102(1): 25ñ33
  6. Kolibáč, Jiří and Leschen, Richard A. B.. "9.2. Trogossitidae Fabricius, 1801". 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. 241-247.
  7. "The first fossil bark-gnawing beetle from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)". Annales Zoologici. 62 (2): 245. 2012-06-01. doi:10.3161/000345412X652765. ISSN 0003-4541.
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