Micromalthidae

Familia:
Genera: Micromalthus – †Archaeomalthus – †Cretomalthus – †Protomalthus

Micromalthidae Barber, 1913: 185

Type genus: Micromalthus LeConte, 1878.

• Barber, H.S. 1913. The remarkable life-history of a new family (Micromalthidae) of beetles. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26: 185–190. BHL. Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G. & Hörnschemeyer, T. 2002. Larval morphology and phylogenetic position of Micromalthus debilis LeConte (Coleoptera: Micromalthidae). Systematic Entomology 27(2): 169–190. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00172.x .
• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 
• Hörnschemeyer, T. 2009. The species-level phylogeny of archostematan beetles—where do Micromalthus debilis and Crowsoniella relicta belong? Systematic Entomology 34: 533–558. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00476.x . Reference page. 
• Hörnschemeyer, T., Wedmann, S. & Poinar, G. 2010. How long can insect species exist? Evidence from extant and fossil Micromalthus beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(2): 300–311. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00549.x . [Corrigendum: 160(3): 619. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00702.x .] Reference page. 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Azar, D. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2: 15–46. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G., Nel, A. & Collomb, F.-M. 2010. New Archostemata (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the French Paleocene and Early Eocene, with a note on the composition of the suborder. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.) 46: 216–227. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697661 . Reference page. 
• LeConte, J.L. 1878. 1. Descriptions of new species. In: Hubbard, H.G. & Schwarz, E.A. The Coleoptera of Michigan. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17: 593–626. BHL.
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2007. [On the find of adult Micromalthus (Coleoptera, Micromalthidae) in Dominican amber.] Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2007(6): 36–38. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological Journal 41(6): 626–628. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030107060068 . PDF.]
• Pollock, D.A. & Normark, B.B. 2002. The life cycle of Micromalthus debilis LeConte (1878) (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Micromalthidae): historical review and evolutionary perspective. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40(2): 105–112. DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0469.2002.00183.x .
• Rosen, J.G. 1971. Micromalthus debilis LeConte from amber of Chiapas, Mexico (Coleoptera, Micromalthidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 63: 75–76.
• Tihelka, E., Huang, D. & Cai, C. 2019 (Online) 2020 (Print). A new genus and species of Micromalthidae from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 111(1): 39–46. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691019000185 . Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G., Lawrence, J.F., Yavorskaya, M.I., Hörnschemeyer, T., Pohl, H., Vassilenko, D.V., Bashkuev, A.S. & Ponomarenko, A.G. 2020. Archaeomalthus-(Coleoptera, Archostemata) a ‘ghost adult’ of Micromalthidae from Upper Permian deposits of Siberia? Historical Biology 32(8): 1019–1027. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1561672 . Plazi. Reference page. 

• Micromalthidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
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