Taphioporus

Taphioporus is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Baltic and Rovno amber from the upper Eocene.

Taphioporus Temporal range: Upper 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:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Euryopini
Genus:	†Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]
Type species
Taphioporus balticus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]

The generic name is a combination of the generic names Taphius (the old name for Pathius) and Cleoporus.[1]

Species

• †Taphioporus balticus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013[1]
• †Taphioporus carsteni Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015[2]
• †Taphioporus rovnoi Moseyko & Perkovsky, 2015[3]
• †Taphioporus rufous Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015[2]

References

1. Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2013). "On the taxonomic position of new taxa of the subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber". Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews. 6 (1–2): 163–172. doi:10.1163/18749836-06021063.
2. Bukejs, Andris; Moseyko, Alexey G. (2015). "Two new species of the genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Baltic amber" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4032 (4): 395–406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4032.4.4. PMID 26624375.
3. 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.