''Troginae'' is a subfamily of beetles in the family
Trogidae
Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera.
Trogids range in length from 2 to 20 mm. Thei ...
which includes extant species and extinct beetle species from the
Lower Cretaceous
Lower may refer to:
*Lower (surname)
*Lower Township, New Jersey
*Lower Receiver (firearms)
*Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England
See also
*Nizhny
Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́� ...
. The subfamily contains the following genera:
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Glyptotrox
''Glyptotrox'' is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae. It contains the following species:
* Glyptotrox abei (Ochi, Kon & Kawahara, 2014)
* Glyptotrox boucomonti (Paulian, 1933)
*Glyptotrox brahminus (Pittino, 1985)
* Glyptotrox cam ...
Nikolajev, 2016
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Paratrox
''Paratrox medvedevi'' is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia around 125 to 113 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. ''P. medvedevi'' is the only species of the genus ''Paratrox''.
References
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Nikolajev, 2009
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Phoberus
''Phoberus'' is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae. It was initially a subgenus of ''Trox'' before taxonomists reorganized it into its own genus. The genus is monophyletic, with all species evolved from a single common ancestor. Mo ...
MacLeay, 1819
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Trox
''Trox'' is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae.
Taxonomy
In recent years, scientists have revamped the taxonomy of ''Trox''. The formerly massive genus, which boasted a whopping 160 species, has been cut down. Specifically, the sub ...
Fabricius, 1775
References
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Trogidae