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Eustrophini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tetratomidae

Taxonomy

Eustrophini was named by Gistel (1848). It is extant. Its type is Eustrophus.

It was assigned to Eustrophinae by Yu et al. (2016), Hsiao et al. (2018), Batelka et al. (2018), Hsiao (2020) and Alekseev and Bukejs (2022).

Subtaxa

Allostrophus, Eustrophus (type genus), Thescelostrophus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1848	Eustrophini Gistel
2016	Eustrophini Yu et al. p. 35
2018	Eustrophini Batelka et al.
2018	Eustrophini Hsiao et al. p. 196
2020	Eustrophini Hsiao p. 264
2022	Eustrophini Alekseev and Bukejs p. 436

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923

Rank	Name	Author
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea
family	Tetratomidae	()
subfamily	Eustrophinae	()
tribe	Eustrophini
tribe	Eustrophini

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.

Tr. Eustrophini Gistel 1848

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G. †Allostrophus Hsiao et al. 2018

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†Allostrophus cretaceus Hsiao et al. 2018

†Allostrophus yangi Hsiao 2020

G. Eustrophus Illiger 1802

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†Eustrophus praecursor Alekseev and Bukejs 2022

G. †Thescelostrophus Yu et al. 2016

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†Thescelostrophus cretaceus Yu et al. 2016

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 Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Priabonian or 99.60000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Myanmar	Allostrophus yangi (210680) Thescelostrophus cretaceus, Allostrophus cretaceus (165561)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	Eustrophus praecursor (110737)