Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119
Parent taxon: Hydrophilidae according to F. M. Carpenter 1992
Sister taxa: Acidocerinae, Alegorius, Aposphinctus, Chaetarthriinae, Creniphilites, Cretosperchus, Enochrinae, Escheria, Escheria bella, Escheria ovalis, Georissinae, Hydrocharis, Hydrochinae, Hydrophilinae, Mesosperchus schultzi, Orphnospercheus, Penitus, Philhydrus, Prospercheus, Protochares, Regimbartia, Rygmodinae, Spercheinae, Sphaeridiinae, Sphaeridium melanarium, Sternolophus
Subtaxa: Paraspercheus asiaticus Paraspercheus vitimensis
Type: Paraspercheus asiaticus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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