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Sphaeridium

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Sphaeridium was named by Fabricius (1775). It is extant. It is the type genus of Sphaeridiinae.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Sphaeridiota by Latreille (1802); and to Sphaeridiini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1775Sphaeridium Fabricius p. 66
1796Sphaeridium Latreille p. 8
1798Sphaeridium Fabricius p. 39
1802Sphaeridium Latreille p. 138
2011Sphaeridium Bouchard et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—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
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilySphaeridiinae()
tribeSphaeridiini
genusSphaeridium

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. Sphaeridium Fabricius 1775
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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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom S. scarabaeoides (168265 168266 168267)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ukraine S. scarabaeoides (153476)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) S. sp. (163070)