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Oreodytes

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Oreodytes was named by Seidlitz (1887). It is extant. Its type is Hyphydrus borealis.

It was reranked as Hydroporus (Oreodytes) by Lomnicki (1894).

It was assigned to Hydroporus by Lomnicki (1894); to Hydroporinae by Statz (1939); to Hydroporini by Nilsson (2001); and to Deronectina by Fery and Ribera (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Oreodytes Seidlitz
1894Hydroporus (Oreodytes) Lomnicki p. 41
1939Oreodytes Statz p. 53
2001Oreodytes Nilsson p. 267
2018Oreodytes Fery and Ribera

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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
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyHydroporinae()
tribeHydroporini
subtribeDeronectina()
genusOreodytesSeidlitz 1887

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. Oreodytes Seidlitz 1887
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Oreodytes alpinus Paykull 1798
Oreodytes borealis Gyllenhal 1826
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 Chattian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 28.10000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) O. cryptolineatus (122010)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greenland O. alpinus (160143 160147 160153) O. spp., O. alpinus (160109)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ukraine Hydroporus borealis (153476)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) O. sp. (167662)