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Elmis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elmidae

Taxonomy
Elmis was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. It is the type genus of Elmidae, Elminae, Elmini, Elmina.

It was assigned to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Elmidae by Schaeffer (1911); to Dryopidae by Statz (1939); and to Elmina by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Kobayashi et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Elmis Latreille p. 119
1911Helmis Schaeffer
1939Helmis Statz p. 68
2011Elmis Bouchard et al.
2021Elmis Kobayashi et al.

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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
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyDryopoidea
familyElmidaeCurtis 1830
subfamilyElminaeCurtis 1830
tribeElminiCurtis 1830
subtribeElminaCurtis 1830
genusElmis

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. Elmis Latreille 1802
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Elmis aenea Muller 1806
†Elmis decoratus Statz 1939
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 Chattian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 28.10000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Helmis decoratus (122010)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) E. aenea (169389 169391 169396)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom E. aenea (168265 168266 168269 168270 168271 168272)