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Pterostichus distinctus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Pterostichus distinctus was named by Piton and Théobald (1939). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Puy-Saint-Jean, which is in an Oligocene crater lake limestone in France.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. planicollis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Pterostichus distinctus Piton and Théobald p. 94 fig. 8

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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
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyHarpalinae()
tribePterostichini()
subtribePterostichina
genusPterostichus
speciesdistinctus

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.

†Pterostichus distinctus Piton and Théobald 1939
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available