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Bathygerus bellus

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Cistelites bellus was named by Geinitz (1894). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.

It was recombined as Bathygerus bellus by Handlirsch (1906); it was recombined as Hydrobiites bellus by Ponomarenko (1985).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Cistelites bellus Geinitz p. 75 figs. Pl 1, fig 10
1906Bathygerus bellus Handlirsch p. 456 figs. Pl 51, fig 72
1985Hydrobiites bellus Ponomarenko p. 64 figs. Pl 8, fig 6; text-fig 24

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
genusBathygerus
speciesbellus()

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.

†Bathygerus bellus Geinitz 1894
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available