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Anaspis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scraptiidae

Taxonomy

Anaspis was named by Geoffroy (1762). It is extant.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Geoffroy (1762), Latreille (1796); to Mordellonae by Latreille (1802); and to Anaspidini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

A. (Silaria), A. (Spanisa), A. antica, A. longispina, A. maculata, A. parallela

Synonyms

Anaspis antica was named by Guérin-Méneville (1838). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Sicilian amber (Catania coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Italy.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Guérin-Méneville (1838).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1762	Anaspis Geoffroy p. 315
1796	Anaspis Latreille p. 25
1802	Anaspis Latreille p. 184
1838	Anaspis antica Guérin-Méneville p. 170
2011	Anaspis Bouchard et al. p. 450

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	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

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea
family	Scraptiidae	()
subfamily	Anaspidinae	Mulsant 1856
tribe	Anaspidini	Mulsant 1856
genus	Anaspis

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. Anaspis Geoffroy 1762

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Subg. Anaspis (Silaria) Mulsant 1856

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†Anaspis (Silaria) parva Abdullah 1964

Subg. Anaspis (Spanisa) Emery 1876

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†Anaspis (Spanisa) horaki Perkovsky and Odnosum 2009

†Anaspis longispina Ermisch 1941

Anaspis maculata Geoffroy 1785

†Anaspis parallela Ermisch 1941

Invalid names: Anaspis antica Guérin-Méneville 1838 [nomen nudum]

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 37.71000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	A. horaki (122997)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	A. horaki (122591) A. parva (123766) A. sp., A. longispina (123771)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	A. parallela (123419)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Germany	A. sp., A. horaki (123769)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Italy	A. antica (153942)