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Amara (Curtonotus)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Curtonotus was named by Stephens (1827). It is extant.

It was reranked as Amara (Cyrtonotus) by Lomnicki (1894); it was reranked as Amara (Curtonotus) by Bousquet (2012), Hieke et al. (2012), Webster (2016).

It was assigned to Carabidae by Kiselev and Nazarov (2009); and to Amara by Lomnicki (1894), Bousquet (2012), Hieke et al. (2012), Webster (2016).

Subtaxa
Amara (Cyrtonotus) boryslavica, Amara (Cyrtonotus) torrida, Curtonotus alpinus, Curtonotus fodinae
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2013-12-17; modified by M. Clapham on 2019-12-03

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1827Curtonotus Stephens p. 67
1894Amara (Cyrtonotus) Lomnicki p. 34
2009Curtonotus Kiselev and Nazarov
2012Amara (Curtonotus) Bousquet p. 887
2012Amara (Curtonotus) Hieke et al.
2016Amara (Curtonotus) Webster

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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
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyHarpalinae()
tribeZabrini()
subtribeAmarinaZimmerman 1832
genusAmara
subgenusCurtonotus()

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.

Subg. Amara (Curtonotus) Stephens 1827
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Curtonotus alpinus Paykull 1790
Curtonotus fodinae Mannerheim 1825
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 Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma

Collections (45 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Russian Federation Curtonotus alpinus (163069 163089)
Chibanian0.774 - 0.129Russian Federation Curtonotus alpinus (163090 163091 163092 163093 163094 163098 163099 163100) Curtonotus alpinus, Curtonotus fodinae (163095 163097)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) Amara torrida (163070 163075)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ukraine Amara boryslavica (153476)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation Curtonotus alpinus (153435 153436 153437 153438 153439 153440 153441 153442 153443 153444 153445 153446 163101 163102 163103 163104 163108 163109 163110 173202 173208 173210 173211 173212 173213 173214 173215 173216) Curtonotus alpinus, Curtonotus fodinae (173201) Curtonotus fodinae (173203)