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Proteinus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Proteinus was named by Latreille (1796). It is extant. It is the type genus of Proteininae, Proteinini.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Nitidulae by Latreille (1802); and to Proteinini by Herman (2001) and Jenkins Shaw et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1796Proteinus Latreille p. 9
1802Proteinus Latreille p. 135
2001Proteinus Herman p. 633
2023Proteinus Jenkins Shaw et al. p. 1143

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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()
subfamilyProteininae
tribeProteinini
genusProteinus

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. Proteinus Latreille 1796
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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: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 38.00000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark P. sp. (123762)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) P. sp. (169378)