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Embidopsocinae

Insecta - Psocodea - Liposcelididae

Taxonomy
Embidopsocini was named by Karny (1930). It is extant. Its type is Embidopsocus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Embidopsocinae by Lienhard and Smithers (2002), Engel (2016) and Engel and Wang (2022).

It was assigned to Liposcelididae by Lienhard and Smithers (2002), Engel (2016) and Engel and Wang (2022).

Subtaxa
Belaphopsocus, Belaphotroctes, Embidopsocus (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Embidopsocinae Lienhard and Smithers
2016Embidopsocinae Engel p. 4
2022Embidopsocinae Engel and Wang p. 488

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
orderPsocodea
suborderTroctomorpha
infraorderLiposcelidetae
familyLiposcelididae()
subfamilyEmbidopsocinae()
subfamilyEmbidopsocinae()

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. Embidopsocinae Karny 1930
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G. Belaphopsocus Badonnel 1955
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†Belaphopsocus dominicus Grimaldi and Engel 2006
G. Belaphotroctes Roesler 1943
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Invalid names: Belaphotroctes similis Mockford 1969 [synonym]
†Belaphotroctes grimaldii Engel and Wang 2022
G. Embidopsocus Hagen 1866
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†Embidopsocus eocenicus Nel et al. 2004
†Embidopsocus saxonicus Günther 1989
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 Ypresian to the top of the Langhian or 56.00000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8France (Oise) Embidopsocus eocenicus (123850)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Embidopsocus pankowskiorum (124370)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Embidopsocus saxonicus (129227)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico Belaphotroctes sp. (21977)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Belaphotroctes similis (124469)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Belaphopsocus dominicus (122982)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82China (Fujian) Belaphotroctes grimaldii (220273)