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Hylastes

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Hylastes was named by Erichson (1836). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scolytidae by Scudder (1890); to Scolytinae by Alekseev (2013); and to Hylastini by Wood and Bright (1992), Bouchard et al. (2011), Legalov (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1836Hylastes Erichson
1890Hylastes Scudder p. 468
1992Hylastes Wood and Bright p. 43
2011Hylastes Bouchard et al.
2013Hylastes Alekseev
2019Hylastes Legalov p. 58

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyScolytinae()
tribeHylastiniLeconte 1876
genusHylastesErichson 1836

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. Hylastes Erichson 1836
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†Hylastes americanus Wickham 1913
†Hylastes aterites Schedl 1947
Hylastes gracilis Le Conte 1868
Hylastes nigrinus Mannerheim 1852
†Hylastes perkovskyi Legalov 2022
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 Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Ukraine H. perkovskyi (207956)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) H. aterites (123927 124073)
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) H. americanus (113749)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Russian Federation H. sp. (113713)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Russian Federation H. sp. (163069)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) H. nigrinus (169336 169347 169350 169353)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (British Columbia) H. gracilis (167673)