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Dicerca

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Dicerca was named by Eschscholtz (1829). It is extant. It is the type genus of Dicercina, Dicercaeidae.

It was assigned to Dicercaeidae by Hörnschemeyer and Wedmann (1994); and to Dicercina by Bellamy (2008), Bouchard et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Dicerca Eschscholtz
1994Dicerca Hörnschemeyer and Wedmann p. 124
2008Dicerca Bellamy
2011Dicerca Bouchard et al. p. 281

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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
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyChrysochroinaeLaporte 1835
tribeDicercini()
subtribeDicercina
genusDicercaEschscholtz 1829

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. Dicerca Eschscholtz 1829
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†Dicerca acanthoptera Pongrácz 1935
†Dicerca bilinica Prokop and Bílý 1999
†Dicerca bronni Von Heyden 1859
†Dicerca eurydice Wickham 1914
†Dicerca prisca Heer 1847
†Dicerca punctatosulcata Pongrácz 1935
†Dicerca reticulatoides Bellamy 2003
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Invalid names: Dicerca reticulata Assmann 1870 [replaced]
†Dicerca taschei von Heyden 1856
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: base of the MP 11 to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 48.07000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (14 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) D. punctatosulcata, D. acanthoptera (155693)
MP 1148.07 - 41.03Germany (Hessen) D. sp. 1 (139219 162181 162184 163336)
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) D. eurydice (106384)
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) D. bronni (127628)
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany D. taschei (123945 152950)
MN 320.0 - 16.9Czechia D. bilinica (150934)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Germany D. taschei (152936)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Germany (Baden-Württemberg) D. prisca (115304)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Poland D. reticulata (164951)
Vallesian - Turolian11.63 - 5.09Spain (Lleida) D. sp. (140804)