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Podabrus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy
Podabrus was named by Leconte (1850). It is extant. It is the type genus of Podabrini.

It was assigned to Lampyridae by Wickham (1917); to Cantharidae by Cockerell (1936); and to Podabrini by Fanti (2017) and Fanti (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Podabrus Leconte
1917Podabrus Wickham p. 467
1936Podabrus Cockerell
2017Podabrus Fanti p. 5

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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
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyCantharidaeImhoff 1856
subfamilyCantharinaeImhoff 1856
tribePodabriniGistel 1856
genusPodabrusLeconte 1850

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. Podabrus Leconte 1850
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Podabrus alpinus Paykull 1798
Podabrus cupesoides Wickham 1917
Podabrus florissantensis Wickham 1914
Podabrus fragmentatus Wickham 1914
Podabrus santaritensis Cockerell 1936
Podabrus wheeleri Wickham 1909
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 Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Tarantian or 58.70000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 55.8 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8Argentina (Jujuy) P. santaritensis (151868)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) P. fragmentatus, P. wheeleri, P. florissantensis (106384) P. wheeleri (106379) P. wheeleri, P. cupesoides (124624)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greenland P. alpinus (160109)
Tarantian0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) P. sp. (137205 137206)