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Paracymus excitatus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Laccobius excitatus was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1866). Its type specimen is NHM P(IV) 58741, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Paracymus excitatus by Statz (1939) and Fikáček et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Laccobius excitatus von Heyden and von Heyden p. 133 figs. Pl 22, fig 3
1939Paracymus excitatus Statz p. 67 figs. Pl 19, fig 89; pl 20, figs 90,91
2010Paracymus excitatus Fikáček 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
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilyHydrophilinae()
tribeLaccobiini
genusParacymusThomson 1867
speciesexcitatus()

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.

Paracymus excitatus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
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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 (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Laccobius excitatus (type locality: 123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Paracymus excitatus (122010)