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Silpha
Taxonomy
Silpha was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Silphidae, Silphini.
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Herbst (1793) and Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Silphidae by Scudder (1900) and Carpenter (1992); to Silphinae by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Rŭžička (2015); and to Silphini by King et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Herbst (1793) and Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Silphidae by Scudder (1900) and Carpenter (1992); to Silphinae by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Rŭžička (2015); and to Silphini by King et al. (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Silpha Linnaeus p. 359 |
| 1759 | Silpha Schreber p. 8 |
| 1761 | Silpha Linnaeus p. 147 |
| 1763 | Silpha Scopoli p. 19 |
| 1764 | Silpha Müller p. 4 |
| 1766 | Silpha Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Silpha Linnaeus p. 569 |
| 1771 | Silpha Forster p. 17 |
| 1775 | Silpha Fabricius p. 72 |
| 1776 | Silpha Müller p. 96 |
| 1793 | Silpha Herbst p. 165 |
| 1796 | Silpha Latreille p. 13 |
| 1802 | Silpha Latreille p. 122 |
| 1900 | Silpha Scudder p. 44 |
| 1992 | Silpha Carpenter |
| 2011 | Silpha Bouchard et al. p. 174 |
| 2015 | Silpha King et al. |
| 2015 | Silpha Rŭžička p. 295 |
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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.
G. Silpha Linnaeus 1758
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†Silpha beutenmuelleri Wickham 1914
†Silpha colorata Scudder 1900
Silpha obscura Linnaeus 1758
†Silpha obsoleta Heer 1847
Silpha perforata Gebler 1832
†Silpha stratuum Germar 1837
†Silpha tricostata Heer 1847
Silpha tristis Illiger 1798
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available