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Aegialiinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Aegialites was named by Laporte (1840). It is extant.

It was corrected as Aegialiini by Nikolayev (1993), Nikolajev (2007); it was reranked as the subfamily Aegialiinae by Krell (2000), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Aphodida by Nikolayev (1993), Nikolajev (2007); and to Scarabaeidae by Krell (2000), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Aegialiini Nikolayev p. 5
2000Aegialiinae Krell p. 880
2007Aegialiini Nikolajev p. 123
2011Aegialiinae Bouchard et al.
2022Aegialiinae Cai et al.

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyAegialiinae()
subfamilyAegialiinae()

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. Aegialiinae Laporte 1840
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G. Aegialia Latreille 1807
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Aegialia cylindrica Eschscholtz 1822
Aegialia lacustris Le Conte 1850
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Invalid names: Loricera lutosa Scudder 1890 [synonym]
Aegialia rupta Scudder 1890
Aegialia sibirica Stebnicka 1977
G. †Archeopsammoporus Minkina 2020
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G. †Cretaegialia Nikolayev 1993
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Cretaegialia aphodiiformis Nikolayev 1993
Cretaegialia rhypariformis Nikolayev 1993
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aptian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 121.40000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.2 Ma

Collections (26 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian121.4 - 113.2Russian Federation (Buryatia) Cretaegialia aphodiiformis (119441) Geotrupoides sulcatus (119498)
Bridgerian50.5 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Aegialia rupta (122090)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Archeopsammoporus balticus (216944)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8Greenland Aegialia terminalis (160108 160109 160143 160144 160145 160151 160153 160159 160163)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (British Columbia) Aegialia sp. (167673)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) Aegialia opaca (169353)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation Aegialia sibirica (173208)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wisconsin) Aegialia spp., Aegialia lacustris, Aegialia terminalis (169406)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (Ontario) Loricera lutosa (122182)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) Aegialia sabuleti (163070 163076)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) Aegialia sp. (137207)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) Aegialia lacustris (167662) Aegialia lacustris, Aegialia cylindrica (157092)
Tarantian0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) Aegialia sp. (137204 137205 137206)