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Zygopini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Zygopini was named by Lacordaire (1865). It is extant. Its type is Zygops.

It was reranked as the subfamily Zygopinae by Zimmerman (1971).

It was assigned to Curculionidae by Zimmerman (1971); to Conoderinae by Davis and Engel (2006), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Poinar and Legalov (2014); and to Conoderitae by Legalov (2015).

Subtaxa
Geratozygops, Zygops (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Zygopini Lacordaire
1971Zygopinae Zimmerman p. 103
2006Zygopini Davis and Engel
2011Zygopini Bouchard et al.
2014Zygopini Poinar and Legalov p. 557
2015Zygopini Legalov p. 1489

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyConoderinaeSchoenherr 1833
tribeZygopiniLacordaire 1865
tribeZygopiniLacordaire 1865

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.

Tr. Zygopini Lacordaire 1865
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G. †Geratozygops Davis and Engel 2006
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†Geratozygops arsinotus Poinar and Legalov 2014
†Geratozygops atropos Davis and Engel 2006
†Geratozygops durhami Zimmerman 1971
†Geratozygops platysoma Poinar and Legalov 2014
†Geratozygops stenosoma Poinar and Legalov 2014
G. Zygops Schoenherr 1825
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 Burdigalian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Zygops durhami (138881)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Geratozygops atropos (122982) Geratozygops atropos, Geratozygops platysoma, Geratozygops stenosoma, Geratozygops arsinotus (122472)