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Mesolobites

Insecta - Coleoptera - Schizocoleidae

Taxonomy

Mesolobites was named by Carpenter (1986).

It was assigned to Schizocoleidae by Martin (2010).

Species

M. granulatus, M. margacrispus, M. punctatoides, M. quadripartita, M. tenuiclathrata, M. trivittatus, M. tuberculatus

Synonyms

Lobites was named by Dunstan (1923).

It was replaced with Mesolobites by Carpenter (1986).

It was assigned to Buprestides by Bellamy (2008).
Shijingocoleus was named by Lin and Mou (1989).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mesolobites by Jarzembowski et al. (2012).

It was assigned to Schizocoleidae by Lin and Mou (1989).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1923	Lobites Dunstan p. 53
1986	Mesolobites Carpenter p. 578
1989	Shijingocoleus Lin and Mou p. 599
2008	Lobites Bellamy p. 39
2010	Mesolobites Martin p. 936

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Archostemata	Kolbe 1908
superfamily	Schizocoleoidea
family	Schizocoleidae
genus	Mesolobites

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Mesolobites Carpenter 1986

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†Mesolobites granulatus Dunstan 1923

†Mesolobites margacrispus Lin and Mou 1989

†Mesolobites punctatoides Lin 1986

†Mesolobites quadripartita Dunstan 1923

†Mesolobites tenuiclathrata Dunstan 1923

†Mesolobites trivittatus Dunstan 1923

†Mesolobites tuberculatus Dunstan 1923

Invalid names: Lobites Dunstan 1923 [replaced], Shijingocoleus Lin and Mou 1989 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available