Profidia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Profidia
Gressitt, 1963[1]
Species:
P. nitida
Binomial name
Profidia nitida

Profidia is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Profidia nitida. It is known from Oligo-Miocene amber found near Simojovel in Chiapas, Mexico.

The species was described by American entomologist Judson Linsley Gressitt in 1963, using a single specimen (UCMP 12630) from the collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, California.

References

  1. 1 2 Gressitt, J. Linsley (1963). "A fossil chrysomelid beetle from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 37 (1): 108–109. JSTOR 1301407.


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