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Ancylochira agilis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Ancylochira agilis was named by Meunier (1921). Its type specimen is 4072, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Eodromus.

It was recombined as Eodromus agilis by Haupt (1950), Haupt (1956), Kirejtshuk et al. (2008), Nabozhenko (2019) and Bouchard et al. (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Ancylochira agilis Meunier p. 8 figs. 6-9
1935Eodromus aeneocupreus Pongrácz p. 538 figs. Pl 2, figs 7-12; pl 6, fig 2
1950Eodromus agilis Haupt p. 120 figs. 73-76
1956Eodromus agilis Haupt pp. 51-52 figs. 58-59
1990Ancylochira agilis Lutz p. 26
2008Eodromus agilis Kirejtshuk et al. p. 137
2019Eodromus agilis Nabozhenko p. 7
2021Eodromus agilis Bouchard et al. p. 175

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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
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyBuprestinae
tribeBuprestini
subtribeBuprestina
genusAncylochira
speciesagilis

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.

Ancylochira agilis Meunier 1921
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available