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Erotylites wallacei

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Erotylites wallacei was named by Cockerell (1920). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 19047, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Creech, between Corfe and Wareham, which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Erotylites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Erotylites wallacei Cockerell p. 71 fig. 10

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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
genusErotylites
specieswallacei

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.

†Erotylites wallacei Cockerell 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available