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Calathus melanocephalus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Carabus melanocephalus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Calathus melanocephalus by Coope et al. (1961) and Tamutis et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Carabus melanocephalus Linnaeus p. 415
1761Carabus melanocephalus Linnaeus p. 221
1767Carabus melanocephalus Linnaeus p. 671
1774Carabus melanocephalus De Geer p. 93
1775Carabus melanocephalus Fabricius p. 245
1776Carabus melanocephalus Müller p. 77
1961Calathus melanocephalus Coope et al.
2011Calathus melanocephalus Tamutis et al.

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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()
tribeSphodriniLaporte 1834
subtribeCalathinaLaporte 1834
genusCalathus
speciesmelanocephalus()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available