Parahygrobia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Adephaga |
Family: | †
Parahygrobiidae Ponomarenko, 1977 |
Genus: | †
Parahygrobia Ponomarenko, 1977 |
Species: | †P. natans
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Binomial name | |
†Parahygrobia natans Ponomarenko, 1977
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Parahygrobia natans is an extinct species of adephagan beetle. It is the only member of the genus Parahygrobia and family Parahygrobiidae. [1] [2] It is known only from larvae from the Late Jurassic of Russia. [3] Cladistic analysis has placed it as the sister group to extant Hygrobiidae. [4]