Ascioplaga
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Archostemata |
| Family: | Cupedidae |
| Genus: | Ascioplaga Neboiss, 1984 |
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Ascioplaga is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae within the suborder Archostemata.[1] The genus contains two species endemic to New Caledonia and one described from northern Queensland in Australia.[2][3]
The Australian species, Ascioplaga scalena, was originally described as a species of Adinolepis, and was transferred to Ascioplaga in 2009.[4] Research on this species’ internal head anatomy, specifically mouthparts and musculature, clarified evolutionary aspects of this species and its deeper role in the order Coleoptera.[1]
References
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- 1 2 Hörnschemeyer, Thomas; Goebbels, Jürgen; Weidemann, Gerd; Faber, Cornelius; Haase, Axel (2006). "The head morphology of Ascioplaga mimeta (Coleoptera: Archostemata) and the phylogeny of Archostemata". European Journal of Entomology. 103 (2): 409–423. doi:10.14411/eje.2006.055.
- ↑ Rodríguez-Mirón, G.M.; López-Pérez, S. (2019). "A new reticulated beetle (Coleoptera: Cupedidae) from Mexico with a catalogue of Cupedidae species of the world". Zootaxa. 4567 (1): 147–160. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.8. S2CID 92211457.
- ↑ Lawrence, J.F.; Escalona, H.E. (2019). "3. Cupedidae Laporte, 1836". In Ślipiński, A.; Lawrence, J.F. (eds.). Australian Beetles Volume 2: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). Csiro Publishing. pp. 8–12. ISBN 9780643097315.
- ↑ Hörnschemeyer, T. (2009). "The species-level phylogeny of archostematan beetles-where do Micromalthus debilis and Crowsoniella relicta belong?". Systematic Entomology. 34 (3): 533–558. Bibcode:2009SysEn..34..533H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00476.x. S2CID 84795808.