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Cephenniini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy

Cephenniini was named by Reitter (1882). It is extant.

It was assigned to Cephenniitae by Jałoszyński and Perkovsky (2016), Jałoszyński and Kubisz (2016), Jałoszyński and Peris (2016) and Jałoszyński (2018).

Subtaxa

Cephennodes, Cephennomicrus, Praphennium

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1882	Cephenniini Reitter p. 142
2016	Cephenniini Jałoszyński and Kubisz p. 574
2016	Cephenniini Jałoszyński and Peris p. 195
2016	Cephenniini Jałoszyński and Perkovsky p. 21
2018	Cephenniini Jałoszyński p. 144

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola

Rank	Name	Author
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Staphyliniformia
superfamily	Staphylinoidea
family	Staphylinidae	()
subfamily	Scydmaeninae	()
—	Cephenniitae
tribe	Cephenniini
tribe	Cephenniini

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.

Tr. Cephenniini Reitter 1882

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G. Cephennodes Reitter 1884

G. Cephennomicrus Reitter 1907

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†Cephennomicrus giganteus Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016

G. †Praphennium Jałoszyński 2018

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†Praphennium carinatum Jałoszyński 2018

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 Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Priabonian or 99.60000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Myanmar	Cephenniini indet. (161726) Praphennium sp. 1, Praphennium sp. 2, Praphennium carinatum (193359)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	Cephennodes sp. (123215)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Ukraine	Cephennodes sp., Cephennomicrus sp. 1, Cephennomicrus sp. 2, Cephennomicrus sp. 3, Cephennomicrus sp. 4, Cephennomicrus giganteus (122997) Cephennomicrus sp. 5 (122996)