Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Synonyms: Hexameristus Bode 1953, Spalacoides Bode 1953, Streblocardioides Bode 1953
Full reference: A. Bode. 1953. Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103:1-375
Parent taxon: Hydrophilidae according to A. G. Ponomarenko 1992
See also Bode 1953 and Carpenter 1992
Sister taxa: Acidocerinae, Alegorius, Chaetarthriinae, Creniphilites, Cretosperchus, Enochrinae, Escheria, Escheria bella, Escheria ovalis, Georissinae, Hydrocharis, Hydrochinae, Hydrophilinae, Mesosperchus schultzi, Orphnospercheus, Paraspercheus, Penitus, Philhydrus, Prospercheus, Protochares, Regimbartia, Rygmodinae, Spercheinae, Sphaeridiinae, Sphaeridium melanarium, Sternolophus
Subtaxa: Aposphinctus conservatus Aposphinctus sibiricus Aposphinctus striatus
Type: Aposphinctus conservatus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Germany (3), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
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