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Calathina

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Calathina was named by Laporte (1834). It is extant. Its type is Calathus.

It was assigned to Sphodrini by Ortuño and Arillo (2009) and Schmidt and Will (2022).

Subtaxa
Calathus (type genus), Quasicalathus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1834Calathina Laporte
2009Calathina Ortuño and Arillo p. 56
2022Calathina Schmidt and Will

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyHarpalinae()
tribeSphodriniLaporte 1834
subtribeCalathinaLaporte 1834
subtribeCalathinaLaporte 1834

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.

Subtr. Calathina Laporte 1834
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G. Calathus Bonelli 1810
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Subg. Calathus (Neocalathus) Ball and Negre 1972
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Calathus fuscipes Goeze 1777
Calathus piceus Marsham 1802
G. †Quasicalathus Schmidt and Will 2022
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†Quasicalathus agonicollis Schmidt and Will 2022
†Quasicalathus conservans Schmidt and Will 2022
†Quasicalathus elpis Ortuño and Arillo 2009
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 38.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (14 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Quasicalathus elpis, Quasicalathus agonicollis (123419)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Calathus elpis (123462) Quasicalathus elpis (110735 220533) Quasicalathus elpis, Quasicalathus agonicollis (123420)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Quasicalathus elpis (110737)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Quasicalathus conservans (224320)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Kazakhstan (Saisan) Calathus sp. (120122)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Calathus fuscipes (168267 168271) Calathus piceus (168269)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) Calathus melanocephalus (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wisconsin) Calathus ingratus (169406)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) Calathus ruficollis (167662)