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Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus was named by Zherikhin (1971). Its type specimen is PIN 964/3, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Yantarnyi village (PIN collection 964), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus by Yunakov and Kirejtshuk (2011), Legalov (2015), Legalov (2019), Legalov and Poinar (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus Zherikhin p. 206 fig. 4
2011Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Yunakov and Kirejtshuk p. 94
2015Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Legalov p. 1493
2019Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Legalov p. 54
2021Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Legalov and Poinar p. 2221

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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
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyEntiminaeSchoenherr 1823
tribePolydrosini
genusPolydrosus()
subgenusPalaeodrosus
speciesarchaetypus

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.

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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Polydrosus archaetypus (type locality: 122591)