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Ptomascopus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Ptomascopus was named by Kraatz (1877). It is extant.

It was assigned to Silphidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Nicrophorinae by Sikes et al. (2002) and Rŭžička (2015).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Ptomascopus Kraatz p. 102
1992Ptomascopus Carpenter
2002Ptomascopus Sikes et al.
2015Ptomascopus Rŭžička p. 304

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyNicrophorinae()
genusPtomascopusKraatz 1877

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. Ptomascopus Kraatz 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available