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Gelastocoridae (toad bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Gelastocoridae

Taxonomy
Gelastocoridae was named by Kirkaldy (1897). It is extant. Its type is Gelastocoris.

It was assigned to Nepomorpha by López Ruf et al. (2005); to Ochteroidea by Nel and Paicheler (1992) and Poinar and Brown (2016); and to Gelastocoroidea by Popov (1971) and Szwedo (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1897Gelastocoridae Kirkaldy
1971Gelastocoridae Popov p. 98
1992Gelastocoridae Nel and Paicheler p. 171
2005Gelastocoridae López Ruf et al. p. 72
2016Gelastocoridae Poinar and Brown p. 40
2018Gelastocoridae Szwedo p. 112

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderNepomorpha
superfamilyGelastocoroideaKirkaldy 1897
familyGelastocoridaeKirkaldy 1897
familyGelastocoridaeKirkaldy 1897

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.

Fm. Gelastocoridae Kirkaldy 1897 [toad bug]
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Subfm. Gelastocorinae Kirkaldy 1897
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G. Gelastocoris Kirkaldy 1897
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Gelastocoris curiosus Poinar and Brown 2016
Subfm. Nerthrinae Kirkaldy 1906
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G. †Cratonerthra Martins-Neto 2005
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Cratonerthra corinthiana Martins-Neto 2005
Cratonerthra estevezae López Ruf and Goodwyn 2005
G. Nerthra Say 1831
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Nerthra bichelata Poinar and Brown 2016
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available