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Bledius adamus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Bledius adamus was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 4081, an exoskeleton (no legs or antennae), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Bledius adamus Scudder p. 762
1890Bledius adamus Scudder p. 504 figs. Pl 8 fig 10
1900Bledius adamus Scudder p. 75
2001Bledius adamus Herman p. 1506
2016Bledius adamus Cai et al. p. 346

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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
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyOxytelinae()
tribeBlediini
genusBledius
speciesadamus

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.

†Bledius adamus Scudder 1878
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available