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Chauliognathus (soldier beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy
Chauliognathus was named by Hentz (1830). It is extant. It is the type genus of Chauliognathinae, Chauliognathini.

It was assigned to Lampyridae by Scudder (1900); and to Chauliognathini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Fanti (2017) and Fanti (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1830Chauliognathus Hentz
1900Chauliognathus Scudder p. 101
2011Chauliognathus Bouchard et al.
2017Chauliognathus 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
subfamilyChauliognathinaeLeConte 1861
tribeChauliognathiniLeconte 1861
genusChauliognathusHentz 1830

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. Chauliognathus Hentz 1830 [soldier beetle]
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Chauliognathus pristinus Scudder 1876
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 Aptian to the top of the Chadronian or 122.46000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Australia (Victoria) Cantharidae indet. (77192)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Chauliognathus pristinus (121307 124624)