Peltis is a genus of beetles found in North America and Europe, and the sole extant member of the family Peltidae, formerly included in the Trogossitidae.[1][2][3][4] Members of this genus are dark, averaging from brown, to dark brown, to black. They are small, wide, and flat-bodied with wide, ridged elytra. Fossil species of this genus are known from the Eocene aged Florissant Formation of the United States, as well as the Baltic amber of Europe.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cleroidea |
| Family: | Peltidae Latreille, 1806 |
| Genus: | Peltis Müller, 1764 |
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Peltis larvae feed on fungal hypae growing inside rotting wood. Larvae grow for two to three years before becoming adults.[5][6]
Other species considered to belong to the family include Juralithinus from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and Palaeoendomychus from the Early Cretaceous aged Laiyang Formation, China.[7]
References
edit- ^ Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. and Leschen, R.A. (2019) Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Syst Entomol, 44: 527-558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338
- ^ "Peltis (1PETSG)[Overview] : EPPO Global Database". gd.eppo.int. EPPO Code, EPPO. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ Prochazka, Jiri; Kment, Petr; Németh, Tamás; Kolibac, Jiri (2017-08-16). "New data on the distribution of Peltis grossa and P. gigantea (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)". Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae. pp. 25–33. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ "Peltis grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.gbif.org. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ PROCHÁZKA J., KMENT P., NÉMETH T. & KOLIBÁČ J. 2017: New data on the distribution of Peltis grossa and P. gigantea (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 102(1): 25ñ33
- ^ Kolibáč, Jiří and Leschen, Richard A. B.. "9.2. Trogossitidae Fabricius, 1801". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 241-247.
- ^ "The first fossil bark-gnawing beetle from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)". Annales Zoologici. 62 (2): 245. 2012-06-01. doi:10.3161/000345412X652765. ISSN 0003-4541.
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