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Mesoderus

Mesoderus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least four described species in Mesoderus.

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Mesoderus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: †Liadytiscinae
Tribe: †Mesoderini
Genus: †Mesoderus
Prokin & Ren, 2010

Mesoderus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least four described species in Mesoderus.12345

Species

These four species belong to the genus Mesoderus:

  • † Mesoderus magnus Prokin & Ren, 2010
  • † Mesoderus ovatus Prokin, Petrov, B. Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013
  • † Mesoderus punctatus Prokin, Petrov, B. Wang & Ponomarenko, 2013
  • † Mesoderus ventralis Prokin & Ren, 2010
References

References

  1. "Mesoderus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  2. "The Paleobiology Database, genus Mesoderus". Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  3. Prokin, Alexandr; Dong, Ren (2010). "New Mesozoic Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from China". Paleontological Journal. 44 (5): 526–533. doi:10.1134/S0031030110050072.
  4. Prokin, Alexander A.; Petrov, Pyotr N.; Wang, Bo; Ponomarenko, Alexander (2013). "New fossil taxa and notes on the Mesozoic evolution of Liadytidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)". Zootaxa. 3666 (2): 137–59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.2. PMID 26217842.
  5. Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-06-18.