Sikhotealinia
Sikhotealinia is a genus of beetle containing a single species, Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae, which is the only living representative of the family Jurodidae. It was discovered in the Sikhote-Alin mountains in Outer Manchuria. This "living fossil" is unique in having three ocelli on their forehead, a condition otherwise unknown in the entire order Coleoptera, whether extinct or living - though it is common in other orders, and generally considered a groundplan character for neopteran insects. "Sikhotealinia" and its extinct relative "Jurodes" are considered as a sister group to all other archostematan beetles.
Q22671
beetle
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Q20735711
Jurodidae
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Q155322
Sikhote-Alin
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Q258227
Outer Manchuria
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living fossil
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ocelli
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Coleoptera
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Q192210
groundplan
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Q23005
neoptera
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Q18116001
Sikhotealinia
MISC
Q18116001
Sikhotealinia
MISC
Q18116001
Sikhotealinia
MISC
parent taxon
parent taxon