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Oxygonus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Taxonomy
Oxygonus was named by LeConte (1863). It is extant.

It was assigned to Elateridae by Scudder (1877), Scudder (1890) and Scudder (1900); and to Prosternini by Webster (2016) and Kundrata et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Oxygonus LeConte p. 48
1877Oxygonus Scudder p. 759
1890Oxygonus Scudder p. 496
1900Oxygonus Scudder p. 97
2016Oxygonus Webster p. 451
2021Oxygonus Kundrata et al. p. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyElateridae
subfamilyDendrometrinae()
tribeProsterniniGistel 1856
genusOxygonus

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. Oxygonus LeConte 1863
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†Oxygonus mortuus Scudder 1876
†Oxygonus primus Wickham 1916
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available