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Orsodacnidae

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The Orsodacnidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae. It is the smallest of the chrysomeloid families in North America; Oxypeltidae is smaller, with only three species in South America. A fossil species of Aulacoscelis is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Santana Group of Brazil.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyOrsodacnidae
Observations recorded6,637

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
14
Family
Orsodacnidae
Collections
MZLU
Recorded in
Indonesia, Canada, Sweden, Tanzania, Peru, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Guatemala

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Subfamilies and genera
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The Orsodacnidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae. It is the smallest of the chrysomeloid families in North America; Oxypeltidae is smaller, with only three species in South America. A fossil species of Aulacoscelis is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Santana Group of Brazil.

==Subfamilies and genera== Subfamily Aulacoscelidinae Aulacoscelis Janbechynea Subfamily Orsodacninae Orsodacne

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orsodacnidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.