Rhinorhipidae, a new beetle family from Australia, with comments on the phylogeny of the elateriformia
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Invertebrate Systematics
- Vol. 2 (1) , 1-53
- https://doi.org/10.1071/it9880001
Abstract
Rhinorhipus tamborinensis, gen, et sp. nov., is described from southern Queensland, Australia, and is made the type of a new family, Rhinorhipidae, fam. nov. The major morphological features of Rhinorhipus are compared with those of related taxa of Polyphaga (Elateriformia, Dascilloidea and Eucinetoidea). Comments are made on the phylogeny and classification of elateriforms based on cladistic and phenetic analyses of a 25 taxon-112 character data set, and a tentative superfamily classification of Elateriformia, sensu novo is proposed.Keywords
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