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Lissomus taxodii

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Taxonomy
Curculionites taxodii was named by Heer (1870). Its type specimen is Nat. Riks. Ar. 40, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cap Staratschin, which is in a Danian/Selandian delta plain shale in the Firkanten Formation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

It was recombined as Lissomus taxodii by Birket-Smith (1977) and Kundrata et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Curculionites taxodii Heer p. 76 figs. Pl 16, figs 8a,9
1977Lissomus taxodii Birket-Smith p. 21 fig. 9
2015Curculionites taxodii Legalov p. 1497
2021Lissomus taxodii Kundrata et al. p. 36

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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
superfamilyElateroidea
familyElateridae
subfamilyLissominaeLaporte 1835
tribeLissominiLaporte 1835
genusLissomusDalman 1824
speciestaxodii()

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.

Lissomus taxodii Heer 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available