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Mesocupedinae (disused)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cupedidae

Taxonomy
Mesocupedini was named by Ponomarenko (1969).

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Cupedinae by Kirejtshuk et al. (2016) and Kirejtshuk (2020); it was reranked as the subfamily Mesocupedinae by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Cupedinae by Soriano and Delclos (2006), Tan and Ren (2009), Ponomarenko (2014) and Strelnikova (2019); and to Cupedidae by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Mesocupedini Ponomarenko p. 105
2006Mesocupedini Soriano and Delclos
2009Mesocupedini Tan and Ren p. 39
2011Mesocupedinae Bouchard et al. p. 95
2014Mesocupedini Ponomarenko p. 1659
2019Mesocupedini Strelnikova p. 297
2022Mesocupedinae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
superfamilyCupedoideaLaporte 1836
familyCupedidaeLaporte 1836
subfamilyMesocupedinae()
subfamilyMesocupedinae()

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.

Subfm. †Mesocupedinae Ponomarenko 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available