Genus of click beetles
Sinopyrophorus |
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Male (labelled "2") and female (labelled "3") specimens of Sinopyrophorus schimmeli |
Scientific classification |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Superfamily: | Elateroidea |
Family: | Sinopyrophoridae Bi & Li, 2019 |
Genus: | Sinopyrophorus Bi & Li, 2019 |
Species: | S. schimmeli |
Binomial name |
Sinopyrophorus schimmeli
Bi & Li, 2019 |
Sinopyrophorus is a genus of bioluminescent hard-bodied clicking beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea, and is the sole member of the recently recognized family Sinopyrophoridae.[1] The genus currently contains a single species, Sinopyrophorus schimmeli, which was described in 2019 from the subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests of western Yunnan, China.[2]
Sinopyrophorus was previously thought to represent the only bioluminescent click beetles (Elateridae) known from Asia, however, despite their similar "clicking" mechanism & light organ structure when compared to the true bioluminescent click beetles (e.g. Pyrophorini), phylogenomic analyses revealed they are phylogenetically outside the Elateridae proper, and therefore were elevated to their own independent family, the Sinopyrophoridae.[1]
Sinopyrophorus is only distantly related to the hard bodied true bioluminescent click beetles, such as the Pyrophorini. Instead, Sinopyrophorus represents the earliest diverging member of the monophyletic clade of bioluminescent beetles known as the lampyroid beetles, which includes Sinopyrophoridae, Rhagophthalmidae, Phengodidae, and Lampyridae.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Kusy, Dominik; He, Jin‐Wu; Bybee, Seth M.; Motyka, Michal; Bi, Wen‐Xuan; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Li, Xue‐Yan; Bocak, Ladislav (2020-08-25). "Phylogenomic relationships of bioluminescent elateroids define the 'lampyroid' clade with clicking Sinopyrophoridae as its earliest member". Systematic Entomology. 46. Wiley: 111–123. doi:10.1111/syen.12451. ISSN 0307-6970.
- ^ Bi, Wen-Xuan; He, Jin-Wu; Chen, Chang-Chin; Kundrata, Robin; Li, Xue-Yan (2019-07-17). "Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae". ZooKeys (864). Pensoft Publishers: 79–97. doi:10.3897/zookeys.864.26689. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6656784. PMID 31363346.
Extant Coleoptera families
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- Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
- Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
- Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
- Micromalthidae
- Ommatidae
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Extant families | - Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
- Aspidytidae
- Carabidae (ground beetles)
- Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
- Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
- Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
- Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
- Hygrobiidae
- Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
- Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
- Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)
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Bostrichiformia | Bostrichoidea | - Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
- Dermestidae (skin beetles)
- Endecatomidae
- Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
- Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
- Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)
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Derodontoidea | - Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
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Cucujiformia | Chrysomeloidea | |
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Cleroidea | |
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Coccinelloidea | |
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Cucujoidea | |
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Curculionoidea (weevils) | - Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
- Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
- Belidae (primitive weevils)
- Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
- Caridae
- Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
- Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)
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Lymexyloidea | - Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
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Tenebrionoidea | - Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
- Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
- Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
- Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
- Chalcodryidae
- Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
- Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
- Meloidae (blister beetles)
- Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
- Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
- Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
- Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
- Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
- Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
- Pterogeniidae
- Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
- Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
- Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
- Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
- Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
- Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
- Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
- Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
- Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
- Trictenotomidae
- Ulodidae
- Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)
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Elateriformia | Buprestoidea | - Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
- Schizopodidae
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Byrrhoidea | - Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
- Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
- Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
- Cneoglossidae
- Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
- Elmidae (riffle beetles)
- Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
- Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
- Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
- Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
- Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
- Ptilodactylidae
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Dascilloidea | - Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
- Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)
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Elateroidea | - Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
- Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
- Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
- Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
- Elateridae (click beetles)
- Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
- Jurasaidae
- Lampyridae (fireflies)
- Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
- Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
- Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
- Rhagophthalmidae
- Sinopyrophoridae
- Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
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Rhinorhipoidea | - Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)
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Scirtoidea | |
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Scarabaeiformia | Scarabaeoidea | - Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
- Bolboceratidae
- Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
- Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
- Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
- Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
- Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
- Lucanidae (stag beetles)
- Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
- Passalidae (betsy beetles)
- Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
- Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
- Trogidae (hide beetles)
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Staphyliniformia | |
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Taxon identifiers |
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Sinopyrophorus | |
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