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Cychrus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Cychrus was named by Fabricius (1794). It is extant. It is the type genus of Cychrini.

It was assigned to Metallici by Latreille (1802) and Latreille (1804); to Carabiques by Dejean (1821); to Carabini by LeConte (1861); to Carabidae by Scudder (1878) and Scudder (1900); and to Cychrini by Tamutis et al. (2011) and Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species
C. caraboides

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1794Cychrus Fabricius p. 440
1802Cychrus Latreille p. 90
1804Cychrus Latreille p. 140
1821Cychrus Dejean p. 5
1861Cychrus LeConte p. 10
1878Cychrus Scudder p. 758
1900Cychrus Scudder p. 12
2011Cychrus Bouchard et al.
2011Cychrus Tamutis et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyCarabinae
tribeCychriniPerty 1830
genusCychrus

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. Cychrus Fabricius 1794
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Cychrus caraboides 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom C. caraboides (168270)