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Coleoptera (beetle)
Taxonomy
Coleoptera was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was assigned to Oligometabola by Geyer and Kleber (1987); to Endopterygota by Carpenter (1992); to Insecta by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Goeze (1777), Latreille (1796), Cockerell (1921), Bode (1953), Zhang (1989), Shoshani et al. (1989), Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Coleopterida by Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (2004), Beutel et al. (2011), Peters et al. (2014), Misof et al. (2014), Engel (2022).
It was assigned to Oligometabola by Geyer and Kleber (1987); to Endopterygota by Carpenter (1992); to Insecta by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Goeze (1777), Latreille (1796), Cockerell (1921), Bode (1953), Zhang (1989), Shoshani et al. (1989), Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Coleopterida by Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (2004), Beutel et al. (2011), Peters et al. (2014), Misof et al. (2014), Engel (2022).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Coleoptera Linnaeus p. 341 |
| 1759 | Coleoptera Schreber p. 7 |
| 1761 | Coleoptera Linnaeus p. 133 |
| 1762 | Coleoptera Geoffroy |
| 1762 | Cistela Geoffroy p. 115 |
| 1763 | Coleoptera Scopoli p. 1 |
| 1764 | Coleoptera Müller p. 1 |
| 1766 | Coleoptera Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Coleoptera Linnaeus p. 537 |
| 1768 | Coleoptera Strøm p. 313 |
| 1770 | Coleoptera Drury |
| 1771 | Coleoptera Forster p. 1 |
| 1771 | Cistela Forster p. 12 |
| 1775 | Eleuterata Fabricius p. 1 |
| 1776 | Coleoptera Müller p. 52 |
| 1777 | Coleoptera Goeze p. 1 |
| 1777 | Cistela Goeze p. 151 |
| 1796 | Coleoptera Latreille p. 1 |
| 1798 | Eleuterata Fabricius p. 1 |
| 1798 | Eleutherata Illiger p. 497 |
| 1813 | Criocerina pristina Germar p. 14 |
| 1852 | Curculionites liasinus Heer p. 15 fig. 39,40 |
| 1856 | Necticus minutus Aymard p. 234 |
| 1856 | Ancylocheira liasina Giebel p. 82 |
| 1856 | Hydrobius obsoletus Heer p. 18 figs. Pl 1, fig 19 |
| 1862 | Hydrophilus stenopterus Heer p. 65 figs. Pl 4, fig 13 |
| 1862 | Helophorus magnus Heer p. 70 figs. Pl 5, figs 22,22b |
| 1862 | Hydrobius godeti Heer p. 70 figs. Pl 5, figs 21,21b |
| 1862 | Helophorus exilis Heer p. 71 figs. Pl 5, fig 20 |
| 1864 | Hydrophilites interpunctatus Heer p. 64 |
| 1864 | Strongylites laevigatus Heer p. 89 |
| 1864 | Saperda valdensis Heer p. 376 fig. 254 |
| 1867 | Helops atticus Redtenbacher p. 33 figs. Pl XVI fig 18 |
| 1874 | Hydrobius obsoletus Oustalet p. 128 figs. Pl 6, fig 18 |
| 1874 | Onthophagus luteus Oustalet p. 194 figs. Pl 2, fig 17 |
| 1879 | Carabites depressus Heer p. 91 |
| 1879 | Buprestites scabriusculus Heer p. 92 |
| 1888 | Criocerina pristina von Schlechtendal p. 478 |
| 1891 | Hylesinus lineatus Förster p. 401 figs. Pl 12, fig 16 |
| 1907 | Crioceris pristina Handlirsch p. 792 |
| 1914 | Isomira aurora Wickham p. 268 figs. Pl 5, fig 6 |
| 1921 | Coleoptera Cockerell |
| 1929 | Elateridopsidae Zalessky |
| 1932 | Elateridopsidae Zalessky p. 201 |
| 1939 | Hydrous ebeninus Statz p. 64 figs. Pl. 18, fig. 81 |
| 1940 | Euchroma arvernica Piton pp. 181-182 figs. Pl XVII fig 7 |
| 1940 | Acmaeodera perreaui Piton p. 193 figs. Pl XVII fig 5 |
| 1940 | Megopis lineolatus Piton p. 209 fig. 76 |
| 1953 | Coleoptera Bode |
| 1967 | Cydnopsis nigromembranacea Jordan p. 86 figs. Pl 3, fig 13 |
| 1982 | Leptopodocoleidae Hong p. 118 |
| 1987 | Coleoptera Geyer and Kleber p. 342 |
| 1989 | Coleoptera Shoshani et al. p. 435 |
| 1989 | Coleoptera Zhang p. 420 |
| 1992 | Coleoptera Carpenter |
| 1992 | Hylesinus lineatus Wood and Bright p. 81 |
| 1995 | Coleoptera Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 1997 | Eodromeus viriosus Zhang p. 88 figs. Pl 3, fig 3; text-fig 10 |
| 2004 | Coleoptera Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence |
| 2006 | Brochocoleus indibili Soriano and Delclos |
| 2008 | Helops atticus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 135 |
| 2011 | Coleoptera Beutel et al. |
| 2014 | Coleoptera Misof et al. |
| 2014 | Coleoptera Peters et al. |
| 2018 | Isomira aurora Bousquet et al. p. 381 |
| 2022 | Eucoleoptera Cai et al. |
| 2022 | Metaxycoleoptera Cai et al. |
| 2022 | Zacoleoptera Cai et al. |
| 2022 | Coleoptera Engel |
| 2022 | Eucoleoptera Engel et al. |
| 2022 | Metaxycoleoptera Engel et al. |
| 2022 | Zacoleoptera Engel et al. |
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Diagnosis
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