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Ceruchites

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae

Taxonomy
Ceruchites was named by Statz (1952). It is not extant. Its type is Ceruchites hahnei. It is the type genus of Ceruchitinae.

It was assigned to Lucanidae by Statz (1952), Carpenter (1992) and Krell (2000); and to Ceruchitinae by Nikolajev (2006) and Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species
C. hahnei (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1952Ceruchites Statz p. 5
1992Ceruchites Carpenter
2000Ceruchites Krell p. 876
2006Ceruchites Nikolajev p. 133
2011Ceruchites Bouchard et al.

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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
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyLucanidae()
subfamilyCeruchitinae
genusCeruchites

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. †Ceruchites Statz 1952
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Ceruchites hahnei Statz 1952
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

Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) C. hahnei (122010)