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Brachymycterus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy

Brachymycterus was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1866).

It was assigned to Curculionidae by von Heyden and von Heyden (1866); to Otiorhynchinae by Zherikhin (1992); and to Brachyderini by Legalov (2015).

Species

B. curculionoides (syn. Eurychirus (Otiorhynchus) induratus, Rhinocyllus improlus, Varus ignotus)

Synonyms

Varus was named by von Schlechtendal (1894).

It was replaced with Oligovarus by Carpenter (1986); it was synonymized subjectively with Brachymycterus by Legalov (2015).
Oligovarus was named by Carpenter (1986).

It was synonymized subjectively with Brachymycterus by Legalov (2015).

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Carpenter (1986).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1866	Brachymycterus von Heyden and von Heyden p. 146
1894	Varus von Schlechtendal p. 209
1986	Oligovarus Carpenter p. 578
1992	Brachymycterus Zherikhin p. 176
2015	Brachymycterus Legalov p. 1494

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
—	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea
family	Curculionidae	()
subfamily	Entiminae	Schoenherr 1823
tribe	Brachyderini
genus	Brachymycterus

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. †Brachymycterus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866

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†Brachymycterus curculionoides von Heyden and von Heyden 1866

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Invalid names: Eurychirus (Otiorhynchus) induratus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866 [synonym], Rhinocyllus improlus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866 [synonym], Varus ignotus von Schlechtendal 1894 [synonym]

Invalid names: Oligovarus Carpenter 1986 [synonym], Varus von Schlechtendal 1894 [synonym]

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: MP 30 or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen)	Varus ignotus (142560)
MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany	B. curculionoides (162049) B. curculionoides, Rhinocyllus improlus (123945) Eurychirus induratus (154946)