{{Short description|Extinct genus of beetles}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Priabonian}} | genus = Tetraphalerites | parent_authority = Crowson, 1962 | species = oligocenicus | authority = Crowson, 1962 }}
'''''Tetraphalerites''''' is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, '''''Tetraphalerites oligocenicus''''' described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian (late Eocene) aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.<ref>{{cite journal|first=R. A.|last=Crowson|year=1962|title=Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|series=13|volume=5|issue=51|pages=147–157|doi=10.1080/00222936208651227}}</ref>
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Category:Ommatidae Category:Fossil beetle genera Category:Taxa named by Roy Crowson Category:Fossil taxa described in 1962 Category:Monotypic Archostemata genera Category:Eocene insects of Europe Category:Paleogene England Category:Fossils of England Category:Monotypic prehistoric insect genera
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