Psyllototus

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]

Psyllototus Temporal range: Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	†Psyllototus Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
Type species
†Psyllototus progenitor Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010

Species

The genus includes four species:

• Psyllototus doeberli Bukejs & Nadein, 2014[2]
• Psyllototus groehni Bukejs & Nadein, 2013[3]
• Psyllototus progenitor Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
• Psyllototus viking Nadein, 2015[4]

References

1. Konstantin Nadein, Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
2. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2013). "A second species of Psyllototus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae:Alticini) from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 3609 (5): 465–470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.5.2. PMID 24699610.
3. Bukejs, Andris; Nadein, Konstantin (2014). "Psyllototus groehni sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a new species of the palaeoendemic genus from Baltic amber" (PDF). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 14 (2): 163–166.
4. Nadein, Konstantin S.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "New Late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (1): 117–137. doi:10.1002/spp2.1034.