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Protorabus planus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Protorabus planus was named by Ponomarenko (1977). Its type specimen is PIN 2066/3185, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Protorabus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Protorabus planus Ponomarenko p. 72 figs. Pl 6, figs 6,7; text-fig 39

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyProtorabinae
genusProtorabus
speciesplanus

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.

Protorabus planus Ponomarenko 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available