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Prometopia depilis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae

Taxonomy
Prometopia depilis was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is GSC 24, an exoskeleton (beetle missing head and thorax broken), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Prometopia depilis Scudder pp. 278-279
1890Prometopia depilis Scudder p. 500 figs. Pl 2 fig 29
1895Prometopia depilis Scudder p. 41
1900Prometopia depilis Scudder p. 88

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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
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyNitiduloidea
familyNitidulidae()
subfamilyPrometopiinae()
genusPrometopia
speciesdepilis

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.

†Prometopia depilis Scudder 1877
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Diagnosis
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