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Cytilus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Byrrhidae

Taxonomy
Cytilus was named by Erichson (1847). It is extant.

It was assigned to Byrrhidae by Scudder (1900); and to Byrrhini by Cong et al. (1996) and Webster (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Cytilus Erichson
1900Cytilus Scudder p. 91
1996Cytilus Cong et al. p. 219
2016Cytilus Webster p. 446

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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
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyByrrhoidea
familyByrrhidae()
subfamilyByrrhinae
tribeByrrhini
genusCytilusErichson 1847

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. Cytilus Erichson 1847
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Cytilus mimicus Casey 1912
Cytilus sericeus Forster 1771
Cytilus tartarinus Scudder 1900
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available