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Agriotes

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Taxonomy
Agriotes was named by Eschscholtz (1829). It is extant. It is the type genus of Agriotini, Agriotina.

It was assigned to Elateridae by Becker (1963); to Agriotina by Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Agriotini by Barsevskis (2005), Kundrata et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Agriotes Eschscholtz
1963Agriotes Becker p. 127
2005Agriotes Barsevskis p. 20
2011Agriotes Bouchard et al.
2021Agriotes Kundrata et al. p. 28

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyElateridae
subfamilyElaterinae
tribeAgriotiniLaporte 1840
genusAgriotesEschscholtz 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. Agriotes Eschscholtz 1829
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Agriotes apicalis Le Conte 1884
Agriotes comminutus Wickham 1916
Agriotes nearcticus Wickham 1916
Agriotes obscurus Linnaeus 1758
Agriotes pallidulus Illiger 1807
Agriotes succiniferus Becker 1963
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 Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) A. nearcticus, A. comminutus (106384)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Mexico (Chiapas) A. succiniferus (140260)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom A. obscurus (168267) A. pallidulus (168269)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) A. apicalis (169353)