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Cybocephalus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae

Taxonomy
Cybocephalus was named by Erichson (1844). It is extant. It is the type genus of Cybocephalinae, Cybocephalini.

It was assigned to Cybocephalini by Kurochkin and Kirejtshuk (2010); and to Cybocephalidae by Park and Downing (2001) and Cline et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1844Cybocephalus Erichson
2001Cybocephalus Park and Downing p. 179
2010Cybocephalus Kurochkin and Kirejtshuk p. 539
2014Cybocephalus Cline et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyNitiduloidea
familyNitidulidae()
subfamilyCybocephalinaeJacquelin du Val 1858
genusCybocephalusErichson 1844

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. Cybocephalus Erichson 1844
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Subg. Cybocephalus (Cybocephalus) Erichson 1844
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†Cybocephalus (Cybocephalus) balticus Kurochkin and Kirejtshuk 2010
†Cybocephalus (Cybocephalus) electricus Kurochkin and Kirejtshuk 2010
†Cybocephalus (Cybocephalus) kerneggeri Kurochkin and Kirejtshuk 2010
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 Hemingfordian or 38.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) C. balticus (110735) C. electricus, C. kerneggeri (124201)
Hemingfordian20.43 - 15.97USA (California) C. californicus (123022) C. sp. (106431)