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Cychrini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Cychrini was named by Perty (1830). It is extant. Its type is Cychrus.

It was assigned to Carabinae by Tamutis et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Webster (2016).

Subtaxa
Cychrus (type genus), Scaphinotus, Sphaeroderus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1830Cychrini Perty
2011Cychrini Bouchard et al.
2011Cychrini Tamutis et al.
2016Cychrini Webster

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyCarabinae
tribeCychriniPerty 1830
tribeCychriniPerty 1830

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. Cychrini Perty 1830
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G. Cychrus Fabricius 1794
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Cychrus caraboides Linnaeus 1758
G. Scaphinotus Dejean 1826
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Subg. Scaphinotus (Brennus) Motschulsky 1866
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Scaphinotus (Brennus) marginatus Fischer von Waldheim 1820
Subg. Scaphinotus (Nomaretus) Leconte 1853
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†Nomaretus serus Scudder 1900
Scaphinotus interruptus Menetries 1843
†Scaphinotus minor Horn 1876
†Scaphinotus wheatleyi Horn 1876
G. Sphaeroderus Dejean 1831 [small snail eating beetle]
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Sphaeroderus nitidicollis Guerin-Meneville 1829
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 37.20000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Nomaretus serus (106384)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Pennsylvania) Cychrus wheatleyi, Cychrus minor (20479)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Cychrus caraboides (168270)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Scaphinotus interruptus (79630)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) Scaphinotus marginatus (169378 169380)
Tarantian0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) Sphaeroderus nitidicollis (137201)