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Parahygrobia

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Parahygrobia
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Parahygrobiidae
Ponomarenko, 1977
Genus: Parahygrobia
Ponomarenko, 1977
Species:
P. natans
Binomial name
Parahygrobia natans
Ponomarenko, 1977

Parahygrobia natans is an extinct species of adephagan beetle. It is the only member of the genus Parahygrobia and family Parahygrobiidae.[1][2] It is known only from larvae from the Late Jurassic of Russia.[3] Cladistic analysis has placed it as the sister group to extant Hygrobiidae.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Liadytidae. Liadytes. Version 1 January 1995 (temporary). [1].01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, [2]
  2. ^ Löbl, Ivan; Aleš Smetana (May 2003). "1". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga. Vol. 1. Apollo Books. pp. 6–8. ISBN 978-87-88757-73-6.
  3. ^ Grimaldi, David and Michael S. Engel (16 May 2005). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.
  4. ^ Beutel, Rolf G.; Wang, Bo; Tan, Jing-Jing; Ge, Si-Qin; Ren, Dong; Yang, Xing-Ke (April 2013). "On the phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Adephaga (Coleoptera, Insecta)". Cladistics. 29 (2): 147–165. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00420.x. PMID 34814378. S2CID 85234655.