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Peltidae (shield beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Peltidae

Taxonomy

Peltidae was named by Kirby (1837). It is extant. Its type is Peltis.

It was assigned to Cleroidea by Crowson (1981), Gimmel et al. (2019), Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa

Peltinae, Peltini, Peltis (type genus), Phenolia incapax

Synonyms

Phenolia incapax was named by Scudder (1876). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Kirejtshuk and Kurochkin (2010).
Peltini was named by Latreille (1806). It is extant.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Peltidae by Gimmel et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Peltinae by Schmied et al. (2009), Bouchard et al. (2011), Kolibáč (2013).
Peltinae was named by Kirby (1837). It is extant. Its type is Peltis.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Peltidae by Gimmel et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Trogossitidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Kolibáč and Huang (2008), Schmied et al. (2009), Bouchard et al. (2011), Kolibáč (2013), Kolibáč et al. (2016).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1806	Peltini Latreille
1837	Peltidae Kirby p. 104
1837	Peltinae Kirby p. 104
1876	Phenolia incapax Scudder p. 80
1878	Phenolia incapax Scudder p. 762
1890	Phenolia incapax Scudder p. 499 figs. Pl 7 fig 23
1900	Phenolia incapax Scudder p. 88
1981	Peltidae Crowson p. 696
1995	Peltinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2008	Peltinae Kolibáč and Huang p. 145
2009	Peltinae Schmied et al. p. 18
2009	Peltini Schmied et al. p. 24
2011	Peltinae Bouchard et al. p. 343
2011	Peltini Bouchard et al. p. 343
2013	Peltinae Kolibáč p. 92
2013	Peltini Kolibáč p. 95
2016	Peltinae Kolibáč et al. p. 683
2019	Peltidae Gimmel et al.
2022	Peltidae Cai et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Cleroidea
family	Peltidae
family	Peltidae

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. Peltidae Kirby 1837 [shield beetle]

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G. Peltis Müller 1764

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†Peltis antehercynica Kolibáč et al. 2016

†Peltis constulata von Heyden 1862

†Peltis costulata von Heyden 1862

†Peltis laminata Wickham 1910

†Peltis minuscula Piton 1935

†Peltis tricostata Heer 1847

Invalid names: Peltinae Kirby 1837 [invalid subgroup], Peltini Latreille 1806 [invalid subgroup], Phenolia incapax Scudder 1876 [nomen dubium]

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 Kimmeridgian to the top of the Piacenzian or 154.80000 to 2.58000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 149.2 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian	154.8 - 149.2	Kazakhstan	Juralithinus gracilidorsum (105970)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	China (Shandong)	Palaeoendomychus gymnus (106313)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Brazil (Ceará)	Peltinae indet. (122557)
Bridgerian	51.1 - 45.9	USA (Wyoming)	Phenolia incapax (121306)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Peltis sp. (124073)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Peltis laminata (124681)
MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany	Peltis costulata (123945)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	Peltis tricostata (115304)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	France	Peltis minuscula (138771)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Germany (Niedersachsen)	Peltis antehercynica (182675)