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Ischaliidae (false fire-colored beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Ischaliinae was named by Blair (1920). It is extant. Its type is Ischalia.

It was reranked as the subfamily Ischaliidae by Alekseev and Telnov (2016), Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Pyrochroidae by Blair (1920); to Anthicidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995); to Scraptiidae by Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Tenebrionoidea by Alekseev and Telnov (2016), Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Ischalia (type genus), Prototrichalus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Ischaliinae Blair p. 134
1995Ischaliinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 787
2011Ischaliinae Bouchard et al.
2016Ischaliidae Alekseev and Telnov p. 5
2022Ischaliidae Cai et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
subfamilyIschaliidae()
subfamilyIschaliidae()

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. Ischaliidae Blair 1920 [false fire-colored beetle]
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G. Ischalia Pascoe 1860
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Subg. Ischalia (Eupleurida) LeConte 1862
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†Ischalia (Eupleurida) dohnaturris Alekseev and Bukejs 2017
Subg. Ischalia (Ischalia) Pascoe 1860
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†Ischalia (Ischalia) youngi Alekseev and Telnov 2016
Subg. †Ischalia (Telnovia) Alekseev and Bukejs 2017
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†Ischalia (Telnovia) danieli Alekseev and Bukejs 2017
G. †Prototrichalus Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020
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†Prototrichalus jingpo Telnov and Kundrata 2023
†Prototrichalus meiyingae Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020
†Prototrichalus milleri Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020
†Prototrichalus sepronai Molina-Olmedo et al. 2020
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 100.50000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Myanmar Prototrichalus milleri, Prototrichalus meiyingae (216411) Prototrichalus sepronai, Prototrichalus milleri, Prototrichalus meiyingae (208365) Prototrichalus sp. A, Prototrichalus sp. B, Prototrichalus jingpo (189783)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation Ischalia youngi (123419)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ischalia danieli (110735) Ischalia dohnaturris (192258)