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Galeruca

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Taxonomy

Galeruca was named by Geoffroy (1762). It is extant. It is the type genus of Galerucinae.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1798); to Galerucae by Latreille (1802); and to Galerucini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

G. (Altica), G. buchi, G. daurica, G. gemmifera, G. rudis, G. tanaceti

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1762	Galeruca Geoffroy p. 251
1776	Galeruca Müller p. 83
1796	Galeruca Latreille p. 62
1798	Galleruca Fabricius p. 94
1802	Galeruca Latreille p. 229
2011	Galeruca Bouchard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola

Rank	Name	Author
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
—	Phytophaga
superfamily	Chrysomeloidea
family	Chrysomelidae	()
subfamily	Galerucinae	()
tribe	Galerucini
genus	Galeruca

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. Galeruca Geoffroy 1762

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Subg. Galeruca (Altica) Geoffroy 1762

†Galeruca buchi Heer 1864

Galeruca daurica Joannis 1865

†Galeruca gemmifera Heer 1879

Galeruca rudis Le Conte 1857

Galeruca tanaceti Linnaeus 1758

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 Sarmatian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 12.70000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 11.608 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian	12.7 - 11.608	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	G. buchi, G. gemmifera (117252)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	United Kingdom (Worcestershire)	G. tanaceti (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Washington)	G. rudis (167662)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Russian Federation	G. daurica (153446)