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Hylesinus hydropicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Adipocephalus hydropicus was named by Wickham (1916). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Hylesinus hydropicus by Wood and Bright (1992), Wood (1992), Petrov and Zherikhin (2004), Legalov (2015), Legalov (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Adipocephalus hydropicus Wickham p. 18 figs. Pl 2, fig 10
1992Hylesinus hydropicus Wood p. 80
1992Hylesinus hydropicus Wood and Bright p. 80
2004Hylesinus hydropicus Petrov and Zherikhin p. 187
2015Hylesinus hydropicus Legalov p. 1473
2022Hylesinus hydropicus Legalov p. 382 fig. 6

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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
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyScolytinae()
tribeHylesininiErichson 1836
genusHylesinus
specieshydropicus()

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.

Hylesinus hydropicus Wickham 1916
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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 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Adipocephalus hydropicus (type locality: 113749)