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Tenebrio primigenius

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Taxonomy
Tenebrio primigenius was named by Scudder (1879). Its type specimen is GSC 63, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Whipsaw Creek (Nine Mile Creek), which is in a Ypresian lacustrine mudstone in the Allenby Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Tenebrio primigenius Scudder p. 182
1890Tenebrio primigenius Scudder p. 483 figs. Pl 2 fig 32
1895Tenebrio primigenius Scudder p. 31
1900Tenebrio primigenius Scudder p. 114
2018Tenebrio primigenius Bousquet et al. p. 381
2019Tenebrio primigenius Nabozhenko p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyTenebrionidae()
subfamilyTenebrioninae()
tribeTenebrionini
genusTenebrio
speciesprimigenius

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.

†Tenebrio primigenius Scudder 1879
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available