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Lithoplanes elongata

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Erinnys elongata was named by Oustalet (1874). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Museum Marseille Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.

It was recombined as Lithoplanes elongata by Scudder (1886).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Erinnys elongata Oustalet p. 144 figs. Pl 2, fig 15
1886Lithoplanes elongata Scudder p. 81

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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
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyPaederinae()
genusLithoplanes
specieselongata()

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.

†Lithoplanes elongata Oustalet 1874
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available