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Cephinae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cephidae

Taxonomy
Cephinae was named by Newman (1834). It is extant. Its type is Cephus.

It was assigned to Cephidae by Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015) and Archibald et al. (2018).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1834Cephinae Newman
2010Cephinae Taeger et al. p. 40
2015Cephinae Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 219
2018Cephinae Archibald et al. p. 209

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilyCephoidea
familyCephidae
subfamilyCephinae
subfamilyCephinae

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.

Subfm. Cephinae Newman 1834
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G. Cephus Latreille 1802
G. †Electrocephus Konow 1897
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G. Janus Stephens 1835
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Janus disperditus Cockerell 1913
G. †Mesocephus Rasnitsyn 1968
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Mesocephus brachycerus Kopylov and Rasnitsyn 2016
Mesocephus leleji Kopylov and Rasnitsyn 2016
Mesocephus sibiricus Rasnitsyn 1968
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 Aptian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 125.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.0 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Mesocephus sibiricus (105536)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6Russian Federation (Tenkinskii) Mesocephus leleji, Mesocephus brachycerus (105375)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Cephinae indet. (119948)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Electrocephus stralendorffi (152578)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Janus disperditus (140149)