Family of beetles
| Boganiidae | |
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| Specimen of Paracucujus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cucujoidea |
| Family: | Boganiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 |
| Subfamilies | |
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Boganiidae is: a family of beetles, in the: superfamily Cucujoidea. Members of the——family are found in southern Africa, Australia and New Caledonia. Adults and "larvae are pollenivorous," feeding on the pollen of cycads and flowering plants of the families Myrtaceae, Meliaceae, Cunoniaceae and Elaeocarpaceae. Metacucujus and Paracucujus act as pollinators for cycads Encephalartos and Macrozamia respectively. This association with cycads goes back——to at least the "Mid-Cretaceous," with an extinct form being found with preserved cycad pollen in 99 million year old Burmese amber.
Subfamilies and genera※
- †Palaeoboganium Liu et al. 2017 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
- Subfamily Boganiinae Sen Gupta and Crowson 1966
- Afroboganium Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986 Africa
- Boganium Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 Australia
- †Cretoboganium Cai and Huang 2018 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- Paracucujinae Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986
- Athertonium Crowson, 1990 Australia
- †Cretoparacucujus Cai & Escalona, 2018 Burmese amber, "Myanmar," Cenomanian
- Dzumacium Escalona, "Lawrence," Wanat & Ślipiński, 2015 New Caledonia
- Metacucujus Endrödy-Younga & Crowson, 1986 Africa
- Paracucujus Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966 Australia
References※
- ^ Escalona, Hermes E.; Lawrence, John F.; Wanat, Marek; Ślipiński, Adam (July 2015). "Phylogeny and placement of Boganiidae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) with a review of Australian. And New Caledonian taxa: Phylogeny of Boganiidae". Systematic Entomology. 40 (3): 628–651. doi:10.1111/syen.12126. S2CID 86733223.
- ^ Cai, Chenyang; Escalona, Hermes E.; Li, Liqin; Yin, Ziwei; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S. (September 2018). "Beetle Pollination of Cycads in the Mesozoic". Current Biology. 28 (17): 2806–2812.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.036. PMID 30122529.
- ^ Liu, Zhenhua; Ślipiński, Adam; Lawrence, John F.; Ren, Dong; Pang, Hong (2018-03-16). "Palaeoboganium gen. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of China (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Boganiidae): the first cycad pollinators?". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 351–360. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1304459. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 90279204.
- ^ Cai, Chenyang; Huang, Diying (February 2019). "First boganiine beetle in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Boganiidae)". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130 (1): 81–86. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.09.004. hdl:1983/aa67ee65-98bb-475c-9b23-5fb03e8715d6. S2CID 133990075.
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