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Hydrochara caraboides (lesser silver water beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Dytiscus caraboides was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Hydrochara caraboides by Bidashko et al. (1995); it was recombined as Hydrophilus caraboides by Fabricius (1775), Müller (1776), Zeuner (1931), Green et al. (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Dytiscus caraboides Linnaeus p. 411
1761Dytiscus caraboides Linnaeus p. 214
1767Dytiscus caraboides Linnaeus p. 664
1774Dytiscus caraboides De Geer p. 376
1775Hydrophilus caraboides Fabricius p. 228
1776Hydrophilus caraboides Müller p. 68
1931Hydrophilus caraboides Zeuner p. 298 figs. Pl 8, fig 3
1995Hydrochara caraboides Bidashko et al.
2006Hydrophilus caraboides Green 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
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilyHydrophilinae()
tribeHydrophilini
subtribeHydrophilina
genusHydrochara
speciescaraboides()

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.

Hydrochara caraboides Linnaeus 1758 [lesser silver water beetle]
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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: base of the Sarmatian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 12.80000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Germany (Wurttemberg) Hydrophilus caraboides (113752)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Hydrophilus caraboides (168267)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Astrakhan) Hydrochara caraboides (125794)