Biology:Profidia
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Short description: Extinct genus of leaf beetles
Profidia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
Tribe: | Bromiini |
Genus: | †Profidia Gressitt, 1963[1] |
Species: | †P. nitida
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Binomial name | |
†Profidia nitida Gressitt, 1963[1]
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Profidia is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Profidia nitida. It is known from Oligo-Miocene amber found near Simojovel in Chiapas, Mexico.
The species was described by American entomologist Judson Linsley Gressitt in 1963, using a single specimen (UCMP 12630) from the collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, California.
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Gressitt, J. Linsley (1963). "A fossil chrysomelid beetle from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Paleontology 37 (1): 108–109.
External links
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