Kateretidae

Kateretidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Recent
Kateretes pedicularius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cucujoidea
Family: Kateretidae
Erichson in Agassiz, 1846
Synonyms

Brachypteridae Erichson, 1845

Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea.[1][2][3] There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least 40 described species.[4][5][6] They are found worldwide except in New Zealand. Adults are anthophagous, feeding on flowers, while the larvae are spermatophagous inside the flower corolla.[7]

Kateretes pusillus

Genera

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[1]

Fossil taxa Cretaretes, Electrumeretes, Furcalabratum, Pelretes, Polliniretes, Protokateretes and Scaporetes from the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, originally described as kateretids, were subsequently argued to be sap beetles belonging to the subfamily Apophisandrinae[8] or members of the separate family Apophisandridae.[9] Pelretes has been described and claimed to have been an pollinator of angiosperms based on it being preserved in amber that also contained angiosperm pollen, much of it in coprolites,[10] although this interpretation has been questioned.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kateretidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. ^ Family KATERETIDAE at Australian Faunal Directory
  3. ^ Cucujoidea - Nomen.at - animals and plants
  4. ^ a b "Kateretidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. ^ a b "Browse Kateretidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  6. ^ a b "Kateretidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  7. ^ Peris, David; Jelínek, Josef (February 2020). "Syninclusions of two new species of short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104264. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104264. S2CID 204258472.
  8. ^ Peris, D.; Jelínek, J.; Sabatelli, S.; Liu, M.-K.; Peña-Kairath, C.; Zhao, Q.; Cai, C.-Y.; Kairišs, K.; Mähler, B.; Rühr, P. T.; Hammel, J. U.; Audisio, P. (2024). "Archaic sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) as Cretaceous pollinators". Palaeoentomology. 7 (5): 594–610. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.4.
  9. ^ Kirejtshuk, A. G.; Jenkins Shaw, J.; Smirnov, I. S. (2023). "A New Subgenus of the Genus Phenolia (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from Myanmar Cretaceous Amber with Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Bionomic Notes on the 'Nitidulid' Group of Families". Insects. 14 (7). 647. doi:10.3390/insects14070647. PMC 10380190. PMID 37504653.
  10. ^ Tihelka, Erik; Li, Liqin; Fu, Yanzhe; Su, Yitong; Huang, Diying; Cai, Chenyang (12 April 2021). "Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle". Nature Plants. 7 (4): 445–451. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00893-2. ISSN 2055-0278. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  11. ^ Bao, Tong; Wedmann, Sonja; Grímsson, Friðgeir; Beutel, Rolf Georg; Seyfullah, Leyla; Bao, Liang; Jarzembowski, Edmund A. (23 December 2021). "Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator?". Nature Plants. 8 (1): 38–40. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-01044-3. ISSN 2055-0278. Retrieved 30 June 2024.


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