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Aclypea opaca

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Silpha opaca was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Peltis opaca by Müller (1776); it was recombined as Aclypea opaca by Coope et al. (1961), Tsepelev et al. (2013), Rŭžička (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Silpha opaca Linnaeus p. 361
1761Silpha opaca Linnaeus p. 149
1767Silpha opaca Linnaeus p. 571
1775Silpha opaca Fabricius p. 74
1776Peltis opaca Müller p. 63
1961Aclypea opaca Coope et al.
2013Aclypea opaca Tsepelev et al. p. 28
2015Aclypea opaca Rŭžička p. 292

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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
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilySilphinae
genusAclypeaReitter 1884
speciesopaca()

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.

Aclypea opaca Linnaeus 1758
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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: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) Aclypea opaca (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Tyumenskaya) Aclypea opaca (175700)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Sverdlovsk) Aclypea opaca (175702)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Russian Federation (Novosibirsk) Aclypea opaca (175699)