# Profidia

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***Profidia*** is an [extinct](/source/Extinct) genus of [leaf beetles](/source/Leaf_beetle) in the subfamily [Eumolpinae](/source/Eumolpinae). It contains only one species, ***Profidia nitida***. It is known from [Oligo](/source/Oligocene)-[Miocene](/source/Miocene) [amber](/source/Amber) found near [Simojovel](/source/Simojovel) in [Chiapas](/source/Chiapas), [Mexico](/source/Mexico).

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

## References

1. Gressitt, J. Linsley (1963). "A fossil chrysomelid beetle from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico". *[Journal of Paleontology](/source/Journal_of_Paleontology)*. **37** (1): 108–109. [JSTOR 1301407](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1301407)

## External links

- [University of California Museum of Paleontology Specimen 12630](https://ucmpdb.berkeley.edu/cgi/ucmp_query2?admin=&query_src=ucmp_index&table=ucmp2&spec_id=I12630&one=T)

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