Psyllototus
Extinct genus of beetles
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Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetles described from the late Eocene Rovno amber of Ukraine,[1] and from the Baltic amber of Russia and Denmark. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor.[1] In 2016, a newly described extant flea beetle genus from Bolivia, Chanealtica, was found to be most similar to Psyllototus, based on the characters available for observation.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | †Psyllototus Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010 |
| Type species | |
| †Psyllototus progenitor Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010 | |
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