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Sphaerocantharis

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy

Sphaerocantharis was named by Bode (1953). Its type is Sphaerocantharis defossa.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Bode (1953); and to Polyphaga by Ponomarenko (1992) and Fanti (2017).

Species

S. defossa (type species), S. sibirica, S. striata (syn. Mikrocarpides lineatus)

Synonyms

Theornithion was named by Bode (1953).

It was synonymized subjectively with Sphaerocantharis by Ponomarenko (1992) and Fanti (2017).

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Bode (1953).
Mikrocarpides was named by Bode (1953).

It was synonymized subjectively with Sphaerocantharis by Ponomarenko (1992) and Fanti (2017).

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Bode (1953); and to Polyphaga by Ponomarenko (1990).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1953	Mikrocarpides Bode
1953	Sphaerocantharis Bode
1953	Theornithion Bode
1953	Sphaerocantharis Bode p. 213
1953	Theornithion Bode p. 217
1953	Mikrocarpides Bode p. 232
1990	Microcarpoides Ponomarenko p. 76
1992	Sphaerocantharis Ponomarenko p. 186
2017	Sphaerocantharis Fanti p. 36

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
genus	Sphaerocantharis

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. †Sphaerocantharis Bode 1953

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†Sphaerocantharis defossa Bode 1953

†Sphaerocantharis sibirica Ponomarenko 1990

†Sphaerocantharis striata Bode 1953

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Invalid names: Mikrocarpides lineatus Bode 1953 [synonym]

Invalid names: Mikrocarpides Bode 1953 [synonym], Theornithion Bode 1953 [synonym]

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Toarcian to the top of the Tithonian or 183.00000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian	183.0 - 182.0	Germany (Niedersachsen)	Mikrocarpides lineatus (107343) S. defossa, Theornithion striatum (107555)
Tithonian	152.1 - 145.0	Russian Federation (Chita)	Microcarpoides sibiricus (114307)