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Heliocopris

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Heliocopris was named by Hope (1837). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scarabaeidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Scarabaeinae by Krell (2000), Tarasov and Dimitrov (2016), Tarasov et al. (2016).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Heliocopris Hope p. 23
1992Heliocopris Carpenter
2000Heliocopris Krell p. 879
2016Heliocopris Tarasov and Dimitrov
2016Heliocopris Tarasov et al. p. 18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
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
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyScarabaeinae
genusHeliocoprisHope 1837

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. Heliocopris Hope 1837
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Heliocopris antiquus Fujiyama 1968
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 Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 27.30000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04France (Puy-de-Dome) H. sp. (155204)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Japan H. antiquus (160137)