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Pterostichus gelidus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Loxandrus gelidus was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is Hinde 14521, an exoskeleton (parts of broken body), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Scarborough Bluffs (Hinde collection), which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine deltaic siltstone in the Scarborough Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Pterostichus gelidus by Scudder (1890), Scudder (1895) and Scudder (1900).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Loxandrus gelidus Scudder p. 763
1890Pterostichus gelidus Scudder p. 527 figs. Pl 1 figs 52, 59-61
1895Pterostichus gelidus Scudder p. 52
1900Pterostichus gelidus 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
speciesgelidus()

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 gelidus Scudder 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available