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Carpophilinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae

Taxonomy
Carpophilinae was named by Erichson (1842). It is extant.

It was reranked as the tribe Carpophilini by de Jong (1953).

It was assigned to Nitidulinae by de Jong (1953); and to Nitidulidae by Erichson (1843), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Kirejtshuk (2008), Cline et al. (2014) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Carpophilinae Erichson
1843Carpophilinae Erichson
1953Carpophilini de Jong
1995Carpophilinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2008Carpophilinae Kirejtshuk p. 109
2014Carpophilinae Cline et al.
2022Carpophilinae 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
superfamilyNitiduloidea
familyNitidulidae()
subfamilyCarpophilinaeErichson 1842
subfamilyCarpophilinaeErichson 1842

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. Carpophilinae Erichson 1842
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G. Carpophilus Stephens 1829
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Carpophilus restructus Scudder 1900
G. †Procarpophilus de Jong 1953
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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 Chattian or 37.20000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Carpophilus restructus (106384)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Indonesia Procarpophilus macgillavryi (152075)