Jarzembowskiops

Extinct genus of beetles

Jarzembowskiops Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Ommatidae
Genus:	†Jarzembowskiops Kirejtshuk, 2020
Species:	†J. caseyi
Binomial name
†Jarzembowskiops caseyi (Jarzembowski, Wang et Zheng, 2016)

Jarzembowskiops is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It is known from one species, J. caseyi described from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. It was originally placed as a species of Brochocoleus^[1], but was subsequently considered distinct enough to warrant its placement in its own separate genus.^[2] The species is named after Raymond Casey, a British geologist, while the genus is named after Edmund Jarzembowski, a noted British palaeoentomologist.

References

^ Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Wang, B.; Zheng, Daran (December 2016). "An amber double first: a new brochocolein beetle (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from northern Myanmar". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 127 (6): 676–680. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.11.005.
^ Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2020-02-17). "Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea". Geosciences. 10 (2): 73. Bibcode:2020Geosc..10...73K. doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073. ISSN 2076-3263.