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Cercyon

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1817Cercyon Leach p. 95
1890Cercyon Scudder p. 510
1900Cercyon Scudder p. 44
2011Cercyon Bouchard et al.
2013Cercyon Short and Fikáček

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilySphaeridiinae()
tribeMegasterniniMulsant 1844
genusCercyon

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. Cercyon Leach 1817
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Cercyon analis Paykull 1798
Cercyon herceus Smetana 1978
Cercyon luniger Mannerheim 1853
Cercyon marinus Thomson 1853
Cercyon melanocephalus Linnaeus 1758
Cercyon pygmaeus Illiger 1801
Cercyon sternalis Sharp 1918
†Cercyon terrigena Scudder 1879
Cercyon tristis Illiger 1801
Cercyon ustulatus Preyssler 1790
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 Ypresian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 56.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) C. terrigena (122190)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Russian Federation C. sp. (163069)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) C. sp. (169389 169391)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom C. analis (168268 168269) C. melanocephalus (168266 168267) C. pygmaeus, C. sternalis (168270) C. sp. (168265) C. sp., C. sternalis (168272) C. sp., C. ustulatus, C. sternalis (168264) C. sternalis (168271)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wisconsin) C. sp., C. herceus (169406)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) C. spp., C. tristis, C. melanocephalus, C. ustulatus (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) C. luniger (167662) C. sp. (157092)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Astrakhan) C. marinus, C. tristis (125794)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (England) C. tristis (164904 164905 164906 164908 164920 164921)