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Blapstinus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Taxonomy
Blapstinus was named by Dejean (1821). It is extant. It is the type genus of Blapstinites.

It was assigned to Opatrina by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Bousquet et al. (2018); and to Blapstinina by Lumen et al. (2020) and Bouchard et al. (2021).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1821Blapstinus Dejean p. 66
2011Blapstinus Bouchard et al.
2018Blapstinus Bousquet et al. p. 195
2020Blapstinus Lumen et al.
2021Blapstinus Bouchard et al. p. 122

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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
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyTenebrionidae()
subfamilyBlaptinae
tribeOpatrini()
subtribeBlapstinina()
genusBlapstinus

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. Blapstinus Dejean 1821
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Blapstinus linellii Wickham 1913
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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) B. linellii (124624)