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Aphelocheirus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphelocheiridae

Taxonomy
Aphelocheirus was named by Westwood (1833). It is extant. It is the type genus of Aphelocheiridae.

It was assigned to Aphelocheiridae by Popov (2007) and Patel et al. (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Aphelocheirus Westwood
1967Coreoidus Jordan p. 87
1967Atoposita Jordan p. 88
2002Coreoidus Shcherbakov and Popov p. 156
2007Aphelocheirus Popov p. 431
2023Aphelocheirus Patel et al. p. 251

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderNepomorpha
superfamilyNaucoroidea
familyAphelocheiridae
genusAphelocheirusWestwood 1833

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. Aphelocheirus Westwood 1833
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Subg. Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) Westwood 1833
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Invalid names: Atoposita angulosa Jordan 1967 [synonym], Coreoidus latus Jordan 1967 [synonym], Cydnopsis ventralis Jordan 1967 [synonym]
Invalid names: Atoposita Jordan 1967 [synonym], Coreoidus Jordan 1967 [synonym]
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Piacenzian or 56.00000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8India (Rajasthan) A. sp. (198876)
Bartonian - Priabonian41.3 - 33.9Germany A. sp. (188970)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Germany (Niedersachsen) Cydnopsis ventralis, Cydnopsis affinis, Coreoidus latus, Atoposita angulosa (109196)