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Pterostichus dormitans

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Pterostichus dormitans was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Hinde 14503, an elytra (elytron fragment), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lake Erie near Cleveland, which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine deltaic siltstone in Ohio.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. planicollis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Pterostichus dormitans Scudder p. 526 figs. Pl 1 figs 49, 55
1895Pterostichus dormitans Scudder p. 50
1900Pterostichus dormitans Scudder p. 22

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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
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyHarpalinae()
tribePterostichini()
subtribePterostichina
genusPterostichus
speciesdormitans

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.

†Pterostichus dormitans Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available