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Agabus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Synonyms
  • Necticus was named by Hope (1838). It is extant.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Agabus by Clapham (2023).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1817Agabus Leach pp. 69, 72
1838Necticus Hope
1861Agabus LeConte p. 41
1882Agabus Sharp p. 493
1900Agabus Scudder p. 36
1992Agabus Carpenter
2001Agabus Nilsson
2011Agabus Bouchard et al. p. 149

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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
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyAgabinaeThomson 1867
genusAgabus

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. Agabus Leach 1817
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Subg. Agabus (Agabus) Leach 1817
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†Agabus charon Wickham 1912
†Agabus congeneroides Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus corticeus Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus florissantensis Wickham 1913
†Agabus hochi Statz 1939
†Agabus latissimus Ponomarenko 2019
†Agabus lithax Říha 1960
†Agabus niedzwiedzkii Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus parvulus Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus perditus Scudder 1900
†Agabus praelugens Wickham 1917
†Agabus rathbuni Scudder 1900
†Agabus reductus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
†Agabus reitteri Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus rottensis Nilsson 2001
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Invalid names: Agabus latus Statz 1939 [replaced]
†Agabus savagei Wickham 1917
†Agabus ungeri Heer 1847
Invalid names: Necticus Hope 1838 [synonym]
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.20000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (46 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) A. latissimus (123959)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) A. charon (106381) A. florissantensis (113749 124624) A. rathbuni (106384)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany A. reductus (123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) A. hochi, A. latus (122010)
MN 416.9 - 15.97Czech Republic A. lithax (105501)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Colymbetes ungeri (117246)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Russian Federation A. sp. (113713 153434)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Japan A. sp. (165738)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greenland A. affinis, A. anthracinus (160144) A. bifarius (160163) A. spp., A. affinis (160108) A. spp., A. affinis, A. clavicornis (160143) A. spp., A. affinis, A. clavicornis, A. bifarius, A. anthracinus (160109) A. spp., A. bifarius (160145 160153)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Russian Federation A. sp. (163089) A. spp. (163069)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan A. sp. (165711)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Japan A. sp. (160539)
Chibanian0.774 - 0.129Japan A. sp. (165706)
Chibanian0.774 - 0.129Russian Federation A. sp. (163100)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Kumamoto) A. sp. (165715 165716)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom A. bipustulatus (168266 168270)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan A. sp. (165709)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) A. sp. (169388)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan A. sp. (166082)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (England) A. sp. (164920)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) A. infuscatus (169347 169350 169353)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) A. spp. (167662)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ukraine A. congeneroides, A. corticeus, A. reitteri, A. parvulus, A. niedzwiedzkii (153476)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation A. sp. (153443 153446 173208 173216)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Illinois) A. savagei, A. praelugens (164922)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (Ontario) A. perditus (152577)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) A. congener, A. nebulosus, A. arcticus, A. sturmii, A. bipustulatus (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation (Astrakhan) A. sp. (125794)