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Calosoma sycophanta (forest caterpillar hunter)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Carabus sycophanta was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Calosoma sycophanta by Gersdorf (1969), Gersdorf (1976), Tamutis et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Carabus sycophanta Linnaeus p. 414
1761Carabus sycophanta Linnaeus p. 220
1767Carabus sycophanta Linnaeus p. 670
1774Carabus sycophanta De Geer p. 106
1775Carabus sycophanta Fabricius p. 239
1969Calosoma sycophanta Gersdorf p. 298 figs. Pl 16, fig 1
1976Calosoma sycophanta Gersdorf p. 109 figs. Pl 2, fig 15
2011Calosoma sycophanta Tamutis et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyCarabinae
tribeCarabini
genusCalosoma
speciessycophanta()

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.

Calosoma sycophanta Linnaeus 1758 [forest caterpillar hunter]
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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: Piacenzian or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Germany (Niedersachsen) Calosoma sycophanta (109196)