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Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dascillidae

Discussion

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Taxonomy
Dascillidae was named by Guerin-Meneville (1843). It is extant.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Zhang (1989); and to Dascilloidea by Crowson (1981), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Li et al. (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Dascillidae Guerin-Meneville
1981Dascillidae Crowson p. 695
1989Dascillidae Zhang p. 423
1995Dascillidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Dascillidae Bouchard et al.
2022Dascillidae Cai et al.
2022Dascillidae Li et al. p. 547

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyDascilloideaGue'rin-Me'neville 1843
familyDascillidaeGuerin-Meneville 1843
familyDascillidaeGuerin-Meneville 1843

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. Dascillidae Guerin-Meneville 1843 [soft bodied plant beetle]
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Subfm. Dascillinae Guerin-Meneville 1843
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G. †Cretodascillus Jin et al. 2013
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Cretodascillus sinensis Jin et al. 2013
G. Dascillus Latreille 1796
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Dascillus cervinus Linnaeus 1758
Dascillus elongatus Zhang 1989
Dascillus flatus Zhang 1989
Dascillus latahensis Lewis 1973
Dascillus musculus Zhang et al. 1994
Dascillus relictus Zhang 1989
Dascyllus lithographicus Wickham 1911
G. †Parelateriformius Yan and Wang 2010
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Parelateriformius capitifossus Yan and Wang 2010
Parelateriformius communis Yan and Wang 2010
Parelateriformius grimaldii Li and Cai 2022
Parelateriformius mirabdominis Yan and Wang 2010
Parelateriformius villosus Yan and Wang 2010
Subfm. Karumiinae Escalera 1913
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G. †Baltodascillus Kundrata et al. 2021
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Baltodascillus serraticornis Kundrata et al. 2021
G. †Lyprodascillus Zhang 1989
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Lyprodascillus peritelus Zhang et al. 1994
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 Callovian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 166.10000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 157.3 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Nei Mongol) Parelateriformius communis, Parelateriformius villosus, Parelateriformius capitifossus, Parelateriformius mirabdominis, Parelateriformius grimaldii (113371)
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Nei Mongol) Cretodascillus sinensis (125656)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Dascillidae indet. (113350)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Baltodascillus serraticornis (124194)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Dascyllus lithographicus (106382)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97China (Shandong) Dascillus shandongianus (130412) Dascillus shandongianus, Dascillus elongatus (128550) Dascillus sp., Dascillus shandongianus, Dascillus flatus (128552) Lyprodascillus peritelus, Dascillus musculus (138944) Lyprodascillus sypharus, Dascillus shandongianus, Dascillus relictus, Dascillus elongatus, Dascillus flatus (128551)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82USA (Washington) Dascillus latahensis (97619)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) Dascillus cervinus (169388 169389 169390 169391 169392 169393 169394 169395 169396)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Dascillus cervinus (168272)