Raractocetus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lymexyloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Lymexyloidea

Familia: Lymexylidae
Subfamilia: Atractocerinae
Genus: Raractocetus
Species: R. emarginatus – ?R. kruselerae

Name

Raractocetus Kurosawa, 1985: 111

Type species: Atractocerus emarginatus Laporte, 1836, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Kurosawa, Y. 1985. Revisional notes on the family Lymexylonidae (Coleoptera) in eastern and southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A) 11(2): 109–119. PDF.

Additional references

Li, Y.-D., Peris, D., Yamamoto, S., Hsiao, Y., Newton, A.F. & Cai, C.-Y. 2022. Revisiting the Raractocetus Fossils from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Amber Deposits (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae). Insects 13(9): 768. DOI: 10.3390/insects13090768 . Reference page. [all fossil species removed]
Paulus, H.F. 2004. Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., der erste Vertreter der tropischen Atractocerinae in Europa, sowie eine Beschreibung von Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. aus Yunnan (China) (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status) [Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., the first European representative of the tropical Atractocerinae, as well as a description of Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. from China (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status).] In: Entomologie und Parasitologie - Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Horst Aspöck. Denisia 13: 277–290. PDF (Zobodat). Page scans (zin.ru). Reference page. [as valid genus]
Wheeler, Q.D. 1986. Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 183(2): 113–210. hdl: 2246/960 . Reference page. [as synonym of Atractocerus]
Yamamoto, S. 2019. Fossil evidence of elytra reduction in ship-timber beetles. Scientific Reports 9: 4938. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41310-1 .
Yamamoto, S., Nazarenko, V.Yu., Vasilenko, D.V. & Perkovsky, E.E. 2022. First fossil species of ship-timber beetles (Coleoptera, Lymexylidae) from Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Fossil Record 25(1): 65–74. DOI: 10.3897/fr.25.81054 . Reference page.