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Ataenius

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Ataenius was named by Harold (1867). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scarabaeidae by Scudder (1900) and Wickham (1912); and to Eupariini by Krell (2000), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Bukejs and Alekseev (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Ataenius Harold
1900Ataenius Scudder p. 104
1912Ataenius Wickham p. 22
2000Ataenius Krell p. 882
2011Ataenius Bouchard et al.
2018Ataenius Bukejs and Alekseev p. 154

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyAphodiinae()
tribeEupariiniSchmidt 1910
genusAtaeniusHarold 1867

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.

G. Ataenius Harold 1867
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Ataenius damzeni Bukejs and Alekseev 2018
Ataenius europaeus Quiel 1911
Ataenius patescens Scudder 1900
Ataenius restructus Wickham 1912
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.20000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) A. europaeus (123927)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland A. damzeni (110737)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Aphodius restructus (114150) A. patescens (106381 113749 124624) A. patescens, A. restructus (106384)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) A. sp. (169353)