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Polycentropus

Insecta - Trichoptera - Polycentropodidae

Taxonomy

Polycentropus was named by Curtis (1835). It is extant. It is the type genus of Polycentropodidae, Polycentropinae.

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Scudder (1890); to Polycentropodidae by Carpenter (1992), Chamorro and Holzenthal (2011); and to Polycentropodinae by Melnitsky and Ivanov (2016).

Species

P. aeternus, P. barbatus, P. eviratus, P. exesus, P. grigorenkoi, P. priscus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1835	Polycentropus Curtis p. 544
1890	Polycentropus Scudder p. 181
1992	Polycentropus Carpenter
2011	Polycentropus Chamorro and Holzenthal p. 233
2016	Polycentropus Melnitsky and Ivanov p. 281

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Amphiesmenoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
—	Metamphiesmenoptera
—	Euamphiesmenoptera
—	Panendymenoptera
—	Endymenoptera
—	Stelloptera
order	Trichoptera	Kirby 1815
—	Eutrichoptera
suborder	Annulipalpia
superfamily	Psychomyioidea	Curtis 1835
family	Polycentropodidae
subfamily	Polycentropodinae	()
genus	Polycentropus	Curtis 1835

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. Polycentropus Curtis 1835

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†Polycentropus aeternus Scudder 1890

†Polycentropus barbatus Pictet and Hagen 1856

†Polycentropus eviratus Scudder 1890

†Polycentropus exesus Scudder 1890

†Polycentropus grigorenkoi Melnitsky and Ivanov 2016

†Polycentropus priscus Pictet and Hagen 1856

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	P. grigorenkoi (122997)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	P. barbatus, P. priscus (109625)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	P. exesus, P. eviratus, Derobrochus aeternus (106384)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)	0.129 - 0.0117	Canada (Ontario)	P. sp. (163074)