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Spercheinae (disused)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Spercheini was named by Erichson (1837). It is extant. Its type is Spercheus.

It was corrected as Spercheinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995) and Bouchard et al. (2011); it was reranked as the family Spercheidae by Crowson (1981), Short and Fikáček (2013) and Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995) and Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Hydrophiloidea by Crowson (1981), Short and Fikáček (2013) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Spercheidae Crowson p. 694
1995Spercheinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Spercheinae Bouchard et al.
2013Spercheidae Short and Fikáček
2022Spercheidae Cai et al.

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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
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilySpercheinae()
subfamilySpercheinae()

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. Spercheinae Erichson 1837
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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
Collections
No collection or age range data are available