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Cryptophilidae (disused)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophilidae

Taxonomy
Cryptophilini was named by Casey (1900). It is extant. Its type is Cryptophilus.

It was reranked as the family Cryptophilidae by Crowson (1981); it was reranked as the subfamily Cryptophilinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai et al. (2022), Lyubarsky et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Clavicornia by Crowson (1981); to Languriidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Erotylidae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai et al. (2022), Lyubarsky et al. (2024).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Cryptophilidae Crowson p. 697
1995Cryptophilinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Cryptophilinae Bouchard et al.
2022Cryptophilinae Cai et al.
2024Cryptophilinae Lyubarsky et al. p. 118

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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
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCucujoidea
Clavicornia
familyCryptophilidae()
familyCryptophilidae()

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. Cryptophilidae Casey 1900
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Invalid names: Propalticinae [empty]
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
Collections
No collection or age range data are available