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Protoscelinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae

Taxonomy
Protoscelinae was named by Medvedev (1968). Its type is Protoscelis.

It was corrected as Protoscelidinae by Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Anthribidae by Legalov (2012), Legalov (2013) and Legalov (2015); and to Chrysomelidae by Medvedev (1968) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Protoscelinae Medvedev p. 155
2012Protoscelinae Legalov p. 691
2013Protoscelinae Legalov p. 292
2015Protoscelinae Legalov p. 1451
2022Protoscelidinae Cai 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
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyAnthribidae()
subfamilyProtoscelinae
subfamilyProtoscelinae

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.

Subfm. †Protoscelinae Medvedev 1968
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G. †Protoscelis Medvedev 1968
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†Protoscelis jurassica Medvedev 1968
†Protoscelis longicornis Medvedev 1968
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Invalid names: Pseudomegamerus grandis Medvedev 1968 [synonym]
†Protoscelis medvedevi Legalov 2013
†Protoscelis nitidicornis Medvedev 1968
†Protoscelis parvula Medvedev 1968
†Protoscelis tuanwangensis Hong and Wang 1990
Invalid names: Cerambyomima Medvedev 1968 [synonym], Protosceloides Medvedev 1968 [synonym], Pseudomegamerus Medvedev 1968 [synonym]
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 Callovian to the top of the Aptian or 166.10000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3Kazakhstan (Chimkent) Protoscelis jurassica (115717) Protoscelis jurassica, Protoscelis longicornis, Protoscelis nitidicornis (105970) Protoscelis jurassica, Protoscelis parvula, Protoscelis longicornis, Protoscelis nitidicornis (106279) Protoscelis jurassica, Protoscelis parvula, Protoscelis longicornis, Protoscelis nitidicornis, Protoscelis medvedevi (105426 113439) Protoscelis jurassica, Protoscelis parvula, Pseudomegamerus grandis, Protoscelis medvedevi (106102) Protoscelis jurassica, Protoscelis parvula, Pseudomegamerus grandis, Protosceloides nitidicornis, Cerambyomima longicornis (105971) Protoscelis jurassica, Pseudomegamerus grandis, Protoscelis longicornis, Protoscelis nitidicornis, Protoscelis medvedevi (106101)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Protoscelis tuanwangensis (154887)