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Micropeplus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Micropeplus was named by Latreille (1809). It is extant. It is the type genus of Micropeplida.

It was assigned to Staphylinidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Micropeplinae by Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Chatzimanolis (2018), Jiang et al. (2020), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1809Micropeplus Latreille p. 377
1992Micropeplus Carpenter
2001Micropeplus Herman p. 187
2011Micropeplus Bouchard et al.
2018Micropeplus Chatzimanolis p. 35
2020Micropeplus Jiang et al. p. 3
2024Micropeplus Jenkins Shaw et al. p. 118

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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
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyMicropeplinae()
genusMicropeplusLatreille 1809

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. Micropeplus Latreille 1809
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Micropeplus caelatus Erichson 1839
Micropeplus cribratus LeConte 1863
Micropeplus fulvus Erichson 1840
†Micropeplus hoogendorni Matthews 1970
†Micropeplus hopkinsi Matthews 1970
†Micropeplus macrofulvus Gersdorf 1976
Micropeplus nelsoni Campbell 1989
†Micropeplus pengweii Jiang et al. 2020
Micropeplus porcatus Paykull 1789
Micropeplus punctatus LeConte 1863
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 Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 100.50000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Myanmar M. pengweii (201881)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333USA (Alaska) M. hoogendorni, M. hopkinsi (123352)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58USA (Alaska) M. hopkinsi (162793)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Germany (Niedersachsen) M. macrofulvus (109196)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom M. fulvus (168266) M. staphylinoides (168268) M. staphylinoides, M. porcatus, M. caelatus (168272)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) M. sp. (169400) M. staphylinoides, M. caelatus (169391)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (British Columbia) M. laticollis (167673)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) M. cribratus (157092) M. laticollis, M. nelsoni (169379) M. punctatus (167662 169375 169376 169377 169378 169380)