''Taphioporus'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

genus of

leaf beetle The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...

s in the subfamily

Eumolpinae The Eumolpinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. It is one of the largest subfamilies of leaf beetles, including more than 500 genera and 7000 species. They are oval, and convex in form, and measure up to 10 mm in size. ...

. It is known from

Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages *Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originatin ...

and

Rovno Rivne ( ; , ) is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the Rivne Raion (district) within the oblast.

amber Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since antiquity."Amber" (2004). In Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.) ''Encyclopedia ...

from the upper

Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...

. The generic name is a combination of the generic names ''Taphius'' (the old name for ''

Pathius ''Pathius'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The genus was originally named ''Taphius'' by Martin Jacoby in 1897; however, this name was preoccupied by ''Taphius'' Adams, ...

'') and '' Cleoporus''.

Species

* †''Taphioporus balticus'' Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013 * †''Taphioporus carsteni'' Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015 * †''Taphioporus hanseaticus'' Bukejs, Moseyko & Alekseev, 2024 * †''Taphioporus rovnoi'' Moseyko & Perkovsky, 2015 * †''Taphioporus rufous'' Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015

References

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Fossil beetle genera Baltic amber Rovno amber Eocene insects {{paleo-beetle-stub