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Lixus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Lixus was named by Fabricius (1801). It is extant. It is the type genus of Lixinae, Lixini.

It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1801); to Fracticornes by Latreille (1802); to Curculionidae by Piton (1940); and to Lixini by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1801Lixus Fabricius p. 498
1802Lixus Latreille p. 199
1940Lixus Piton p. 200
2011Lixus Bouchard et al. p. 620
2015Lixus Legalov p. 1496

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyLixinaeSchonherr 1823
tribeLixiniSchonherr 1823
genusLixus

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. Lixus Fabricius 1801
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Subg. Lixus (Eulixus) Reitter 1916
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†Lixus (Eulixus) balazuci Voisin and Nel 1993
†Lixus ligniticus Piton 1940
Lixus paraplecticus Linnaeus 1758
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 Selandian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 61.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 59.2 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Selandian61.6 - 59.2France (Auvergne) L. ligniticus (113685)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Wurttemberg) L. sp. (113752)
Turolian8.7 - 5.333France (Ardèche) L. balazuci (113893)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Japan L. sp. (160539)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom L. sp. (168266)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Astrakhan) L. sp., L. paraplecticus (125794)