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Eucinetidae (plate-thigh beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Eucinetidae

Taxonomy
Eucinetidae was named by Lacordaire (1857). It is extant. Its type is Eucinetus.

It was assigned to Eucinetoidea by Crowson (1981); to Scirtoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Clamboidea by Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Cretohlezkus, Eucinetus (type genus), Huaxiacinectus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Eucinetidae Lacordaire p. 281
1981Eucinetidae Crowson p. 695
1995Eucinetidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2022Eucinetidae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—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
—Clambiformia
superfamilyClamboidea
familyEucinetidae
familyEucinetidae

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.

Fm. Eucinetidae Lacordaire 1857 [plate-thigh beetle]
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G. †Cretohlezkus Jałoszyński 2019
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†Cretohlezkus alleni Jałoszyński 2019
G. Eucinetus Germar 1818
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†Eucinetus debilispinus Li and Cai 2024
†Eucinetus nikolaevae Kirejtshuk and Ponomarenko 2019
†Eucinetus panghongae Li and Cai 2024
†Eucinetus parvus Du et al. 2020
†Eucinetus zhenhuai Li and Cai 2024
G. †Huaxiacinectus Hong 1995
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Hauterivian to the top of the Priabonian or 132.90000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 129.4 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4China (Gansu) Huaxiacinectus xinyaoensis, Huaxiacinectus xiangfanggouensis (140467)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Cretohlezkus alleni (200768) Eucinetus debilispinus, Eucinetus panghongae, Eucinetus zhenhuai (161726) Eucinetus parvus (198811)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Eucinetus nikolaevae (21976)