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Dryops

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dryopidae

Taxonomy

Dryops was named by Olivier (1791). It is extant.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Dryopides by Billberg (1820); to Parnidae by Wickham (1912); and to Dryopidae by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

D. ernesti, Parnus prolifericornis, Parnus sericeus

Synonyms

Parnus was named by Fabricius (1792). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Dryops by Bouchard et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1792); and to Dryopides by Piton (1939).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1791	Dryops Olivier p. 297
1792	Parnus Fabricius p. 245
1796	Dryops Latreille p. 11
1802	Dryops Latreille p. 119
1820	Dryops Billberg p. 38
1912	Dryops Wickham p. 16
1939	Parnus Piton p. 105
2011	Dryops Bouchard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Dryopoidea
family	Dryopidae	()
genus	Dryops

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. Dryops Olivier 1791

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Dryops ernesti des Gozis 1886

Invalid names: Parnus Fabricius 1792 [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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.8 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	France	Parnus sericeus (113996)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom	D. sp. (168265 168266 168268 168270)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom (Warwickshire)	D. sp. (169388 169389 169390 169391 169392)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	United Kingdom (Worcestershire)	D. ernesti (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Ukraine	Parnus prolifericornis (153476)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Russian Federation (Astrakhan)	D. sp. (125794)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	United Kingdom (England)	D. sp. (164904 164905 164906 164919)