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Hylesinus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy

Hylesinus was named by Fabricius (1801). It is extant.

It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1801); and to Hylesinini by Wood and Bright (1992), Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

H. (Hylesinus), H. crenatus, H. dormiscens, H. extractus, H. facilis, H. hydropicus, H. neli, H. toranio (syn. Bostrichus oleiperda), H. varius

Synonyms

Adipocephalus was named by Wickham (1916).

It was synonymized subjectively with Hylesinus by Wood and Bright (1992), Wood (1992), Petrov and Zherikhin (2004), Legalov (2015).

It was assigned to Scolytidae by Wickham (1916).
Leperisinus was named by Reitter (1913). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Hylesinus by Wood and Bright (1992).

It was assigned to Scolytidae by Wickham (1920).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1801	Hylesinus Fabricius p. 390
1913	Leperisinus Reitter
1916	Adipocephalus Wickham p. 18
1920	Leperisinus Wickham p. 363
1992	Hylesinus Wood and Bright p. 74
2011	Hylesinus Bouchard et al. p. 634

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
—	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea
family	Curculionidae	()
subfamily	Scolytinae	()
tribe	Hylesinini	Erichson 1836
genus	Hylesinus

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. Hylesinus Fabricius 1801

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Subg. Hylesinus (Hylesinus) Fabricius 1801

Hylesinus crenatus Fabricius 1787

†Hylesinus dormiscens Scudder 1900

†Hylesinus extractus Scudder 1893

†Hylesinus facilis Heer 1856

†Hylesinus hydropicus Wickham 1916

†Hylesinus neli Petrov and Zherikhin 2004

Hylesinus toranio Danthoine 1788

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Invalid names: Bostrichus oleiperda Fabricius 1792 [synonym]

Hylesinus varius Fabricius 1775

Invalid names: Adipocephalus Wickham 1916 [synonym], Leperisinus Reitter 1913 [synonym]

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: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	H. extractus, Adipocephalus hydropicus (113749) H. extractus, Cytilus dormiscens (106384)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	H. facilis (152493) H. neli (127415)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom	H. crenatus (168269 168272) H. crenatus, H. oleiperda (168266) H. crenatus, H. oleiperda, Leperisinus varius (168267) H. oleiperda (168265) H. oleiperda, Leperisinus varius (168264 168270) Leperisinus varius (168271)