Biology:Protopeltis
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Short description: Genus of beetles
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cleroidea |
| Family: | Protopeltidae Crowson, 1966 |
| Genus: | Protopeltis Crowson, 1964 |
| Type species | |
| Protopeltis viridescens (Broun, 1886)
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Protopeltis is a genus of beetles. It contains two species native to New Zealand.[1] It was formerly considered a member of Trogossitidae, but is currently placed as the only member of the family Protopeltidae within the Cleroidea.[2] The larvae have been collected from the fungus infested bark of dead Nothofagus trees. Adult gut contents indicate that they are mycophagous, feeding on probably Hymenochaete fungi. This is also presumably true for the larvae.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kolibac, Jiri (2013-12-31). "Trogossitidae: A review of the beetle family, with a catalogue and keys" (in en). ZooKeys (366): 1–194. doi:10.3897/zookeys.366.6172. ISSN 1313-2970. PMID 24453569. PMC 3890666. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/3109/.
- ↑ Gimmel, Matthew L.; Bocakova, Milada; Gunter, Nicole L.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (July 2019). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)" (in en). Systematic Entomology 44 (3): 527–558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338. ISSN 0307-6970. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12338.
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