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Hister

Insecta - Coleoptera - Histeridae

Taxonomy

Hister was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Histeridae, Histerinae.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); and to Histerini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

H. aemulus, H. antiquus, H. cerestensis, H. coprolithorum, H. maculigerus, H. marmoratus, H. mastodontis, H. morosus, H. simplicisternus, H. vetustus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Hister Linnaeus p. 358
1761	Hister Linnaeus p. 147
1763	Hister Scopoli p. 12
1764	Hister Müller p. 4
1767	Hister Linnaeus p. 566
1768	Hister Strøm p. 316
1771	Hister Forster p. 11
1775	Hister Fabricius p. 52
1776	Hister Müller p. 56
1796	Hister Latreille p. 9
1798	Hister Fabricius p. 37
1802	Hister Latreille p. 117
2011	Hister Bouchard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923

Rank	Name	Author
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Staphyliniformia
superfamily	Histeroidea	Gyllenhal 1808
family	Histeridae	Gyllenhal 1808
subfamily	Histerinae	Gyllenhal 1808
tribe	Histerini	Gyllenhal 1808
genus	Hister

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. Hister Linnaeus 1758

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†Hister aemulus Heer 1862

†Hister antiquus Heer 1862

†Hister cerestensis Degallier et al. 2019

†Hister coprolithorum Heer 1862

†Hister maculigerus Heer 1862

†Hister marmoratus Heer 1862

†Hister mastodontis Heer 1862

†Hister morosus Heer 1862

Hister simplicisternus Lewis 1879

†Hister vetustus Heer 1862

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 MP 23 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 33.90000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 28.4 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
MP 23	33.9 - 28.4	France	H. cerestensis (157327)
Sarmatian	12.7 - 11.608	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	H. marmoratus, H. mastodontis, H. antiquus, H. vetustus, H. coprolithorum, H. maculigerus, H. aemulus, H. morosus (117252)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom (Warwickshire)	H. sp. (169389)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom	H. sp. (168264 168265 168267 168268)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Japan	H. simplicisternus (166083)