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 Russian Manchuria. This "living fossil" is unique in having three ocelli on its 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.

Sikhotealinia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Jurodidae
Genus: Sikhotealinia
Lafer, 1996
Species:
S. zhiltzovae
Binomial name
Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae
Lafer, 1996
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