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Silis chiapasensis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy
Silis chiapasensis was named by Wittmer (1963). Its type specimen is UCMP 12615, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-1402, Simojovel area, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Silis chiapasensis Wittmer p. 53 figs. Pl 3, lower right; text-fig 136
2013Silis chiapasensis Kazantsev p. 290
2017Silis chiapasensis Fanti p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyCantharidaeImhoff 1856
subfamilySilinaeMulsant 1862
tribeSiliniMulsant 1862
genusSilis
specieschiapasensis

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.

†Silis chiapasensis Wittmer 1963
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Silis chiapasensis (type locality: 124810)