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Jacobsoniidae
Family Jacobsoniidae
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily
Staphylinoidea
Family
Jacobsoniidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
moved between major beetle lineages several times
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Explanation of Names
Jacobsoniidae Heller 1926
Numbers
2 spp. in a single genus in our area
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3
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; ~24 spp. in 3 genera worldwide
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Size
0.65‒2.5 mm
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Range
mostly tropical islands, esp. in the Indo-Australian region; in our area, Florida
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Works Cited
1.
A Jacobson's beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae)
Tihelka E., Peris D., Cai C., Perrichot V. 2022. Geodiversitas 44(3): 47‒56.
2.
Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species
Zhang S.-Q., Che L.-H., Li Y., Liang D., Pang H., Ślipiński A., Zhang P. 2018. Nature Comm. 9, Article 205: 1‒11.
3.
Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
Contributed by
tom murray
on 22 January, 2008 - 5:01pm
Additional contributions by
Phillip Harpootlian
,
v belov
Last updated 8 December, 2023 - 3:50pm