Jacobsoniidae

Family of beetles

Jacobsoniidae
Temporal range: latest Albian - Present
~100–0 Ma
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Sarothrias sinicus in various views, scale bar = 0.5 mm
Saphophagus minutus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Jacobsoniidae
Heller, 1926
Synonyms
  • Sarothriidae Crowson, 1955
  • Derolathriinae Sen Gupta, 1979

Jacobsoniidae are a family of tiny beetles belonging to Staphylinoidea.[1] The larvae and adults live under bark, in plant litter, fungi, bat guano and rotten wood.[2] There are around 28 described species in three genera:[3]

Description

Members of this family have a small body size (0.7-2.1mm in length).[2] Their bodies are narrow, and are four times as long as they are wide.[2] They are often a yellowish-brown in color.[2]

Ecology

Members of the group have primarily been found in leaf litter or in rotting wood, but some has have also been found in fungal fruting bodies or bat guano. The biology of members of this group is essentially unknown.[4]

Taxonomy

Their taxonomic position has long been controversial, originally they were placed in Dermestoidea, before being considered Polyphaga incertae sedis. They were later placed in the Staphylinoidea, which is supported by characters of the wing venation as well as the morphology of the larval galea of the maxillae.[4]

Distribution

Members of this family have been found in Alabama, Florida, South America, Central America, Polynesia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia.[2][3]

Taxonomy

  • Genus Sarothrias Grouvelle, 1918 (India, Southeast Asia, China, Oceania)
    • Sarothrias amabilis Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias audax Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias bournei Ślipiński, 1986
    • Sarothrias cretaceus Cai et al., 2017 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[5]
    • Sarothrias crowsoni Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias dimerus (Heller, 1926)
    • Sarothrias eximius Grouvelle, 1918
    • Sarothrias fijianus Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias hygrophilus Pal, 1998
    • Sarothrias indicus Dajoz, 1978
    • Sarothrias lawrencei Löbl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias morokanus Poggi, 1991
    • Sarothrias pacificus Ślipiński & Löbl, 1995
    • Sarothrias papuanus Ślipiński, 1986
    • Sarothrias sinicus Bi & Chen, 2015
    • Sarothrias songi Yin & Bi, 2018
  • Genus Saphophagus Sharp, 1886 (New Zealand)
    • Saphophagus minutus Sharp, 1886
  • Genus Derolathrus Sharp, 1908 (Oceania, Macaronesia, North America, Mauritius, Indian subcontinent)

References

  1. ^ Zhang, S. Q.; Che, L. H.; Li, Y.; Liang, D.; Pang, H.; Ślipiński, A.; Zhang, P. (2018). "Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 205. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9..205Z. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02644-4. PMC 5768713. PMID 29335414.
  2. ^ a b c d e Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  3. ^ a b Háva, Jiří (2022). "World catalogue of the family Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea)" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ a b c Tihelka, Erik; Peris, David; Cai, Chenyang; Perrichot, Vincent (20 January 2022). "A Jacobson's beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae)". Geodiversitas. 44 (3): 47–56. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a3. S2CID 246297785.
  5. ^ Cai, Chenyang; Ślipiński, Adam; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Yin, Ziwei; Zhuo, De; Huang, Diying (2 May 2017). "The first Mesozoic Jacobson's beetle (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber and biogeographical stasis". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (7): 543–550. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1314388. S2CID 91087174.
  6. ^ Yamamoto, Shûhei; Takahashi, Yui; Parker, Joseph (May 2017). "Evolutionary stasis in enigmatic jacobsoniid beetles". Gondwana Research. 45: 275–281. Bibcode:2017GondR..45..275Y. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.12.008.
  7. ^ Cai, Chenyang; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Liu, Ye; Huang, Diying (28 March 2016). "First fossil jacobsoniid beetle (Coleoptera): Derolathrus groehni n. sp. from Eocene Baltic amber". Journal of Paleontology. 89 (5): 762–767. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.65. S2CID 131477117.
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Extant Coleoptera families
Suborder Archostemata
  • Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
  • Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
  • Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
  • Micromalthidae
  • Ommatidae
Suborder Adephaga
Extant families
  • Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
  • Aspidytidae
  • Carabidae (ground beetles)
  • Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
  • Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
  • Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
  • Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
  • Hygrobiidae
  • Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
  • Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
  • Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)
Suborder Myxophaga
Suborder Polyphaga
Bostrichiformia
Bostrichoidea
  • Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
  • Dermestidae (skin beetles)
  • Endecatomidae
  • Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
  • Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
  • Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)
Derodontoidea
  • Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
Cucujiformia
Chrysomeloidea
Cleroidea
Coccinelloidea
Cucujoidea
Curculionoidea
(weevils)
  • Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
  • Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
  • Belidae (primitive weevils)
  • Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
  • Caridae
  • Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
  • Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)
Lymexyloidea
  • Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
Tenebrionoidea
  • Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
  • Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
  • Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
  • Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
  • Chalcodryidae
  • Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
  • Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
  • Meloidae (blister beetles)
  • Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
  • Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
  • Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
  • Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
  • Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
  • Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
  • Pterogeniidae
  • Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
  • Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
  • Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
  • Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
  • Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
  • Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
  • Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
  • Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
  • Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
  • Trictenotomidae
  • Ulodidae
  • Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)
Elateriformia
Buprestoidea
  • Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
  • Schizopodidae
Byrrhoidea
  • Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
  • Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
  • Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
  • Cneoglossidae
  • Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
  • Elmidae (riffle beetles)
  • Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
  • Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
  • Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
  • Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
  • Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
  • Ptilodactylidae
Dascilloidea
  • Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
  • Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)
Elateroidea
  • Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
  • Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
  • Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
  • Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
  • Elateridae (click beetles)
  • Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
  • Jurasaidae
  • Lampyridae (fireflies)
  • Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
  • Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
  • Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
  • Rhagophthalmidae
  • Sinopyrophoridae
  • Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
Rhinorhipoidea
  • Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)
Scirtoidea
Scarabaeiformia
Scarabaeoidea
  • Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
  • Bolboceratidae
  • Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
  • Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
  • Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
  • Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
  • Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
  • Lucanidae (stag beetles)
  • Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
  • Passalidae (betsy beetles)
  • Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
  • Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
  • Trogidae (hide beetles)
Staphyliniformia
Histeroidea
  • Histeridae (clown beetles)
  • Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
  • Synteliidae
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea
  • Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetles)
  • Hydraenidae
  • Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
  • Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
  • Silphidae (carrion beetles)
  • Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
Taxon identifiers
Jacobsoniidae

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