Palophaginae
Palophaginae is a small beetle subfamily within the family Megalopodidae. It contains two tribes, with five species in four genera:[2][3][4]
- Tribe Palophagini Kuschel & May, 1990
- Genus Cucujopsis Crowson, 1946
- Cucujopsis setifer Crowson, 1946
 
 - Genus Palophagoides Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1996
- Palophagoides vargasorum Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1996
 
 - Genus Palophagus Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
- Palophagus australiensis Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
 - Palophagus bunyae Kuschel in Kuschel & May, 1990
 
 
 - Genus Cucujopsis Crowson, 1946
 - Tribe †Lobanoviellini Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021[4]
- Genus †Lobanoviella Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021
- †Lobanoviella andreyi Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021
 
 
 - Genus †Lobanoviella Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021
 
| Palophaginae | |
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| Palophagus bunyae | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Coleoptera | 
| Family: | Megalopodidae | 
| Subfamily: | Palophaginae Kuschel & May, 1990[1]  | 
References
    
- G. Kuschel; B. M. May (1990). "Palophaginae, a new subfamily for leaf-beetles, feeding as adult and larva on Araucarian pollen in Australia (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 665 (6): 697–719. doi:10.1071/IT9890697.
 - "Palophaginae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
 - Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M. (2018). "Checklist of the family Megalopodidae Latreille (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea); a synthesis of its diversity and distribution". Zootaxa. 4434 (2): 265–302. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.3. PMID 30313186. S2CID 52977359.
 - Kirejtshuk, A. G.; Reid, C. A. M. (2021). "Lobanoviella andreyi, new genus and species of Lobanoviellini trib. nov. in the subfamily Palophaginae (Coleoptera, Megalopodidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber, with discussion of similarity with Phloeostichidae". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. in press: 1–7. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1987428. S2CID 243581689.
 
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