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Themus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy
Themus was named by Motschulsky (1858). It is extant.

It was assigned to Cantharinae by Kazantsev (2013); and to Cantharini by Fanti (2017), Fanti (2017) and Fanti and Damgaard (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Themus Motschulsky
1989Curticantharis Zhang p. 422
2013Themus Kazantsev p. 290
2017Themus Fanti p. 4
2018Themus Fanti and Damgaard p. 19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyCantharidaeImhoff 1856
subfamilyCantharinaeImhoff 1856
tribeCanthariniImhoff 1856
genusThemusMotschulsky 1858

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. Themus Motschulsky 1858
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Subg. Themus (Haplothemus) Wittmer 1973
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†Themus (Haplothemus) bennyianderseni Fanti and Damgaard 2018
Subg. Themus (Telephorops) Fairmaire 1886
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†Themus (Telephorops) polyaki Kirejtshuk 2019
Subg. Themus (Themus) Motschulsky 1858
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†Themus (Themus) trapezialis Zhang et al. 1994
Invalid names: Curticantharis Zhang 1989 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available