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Germarostes emarginatus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hybosoridae

Taxonomy
Ceratocanthus emarginatus was named by Poinar (2014). Its type specimen is Poinar C-7-21, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Germarostes emarginatus by Ballerio and Grebennikov (2016) and Poinar and Ballerio (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Ceratocanthus emarginatus Poinar p. 433 figs. 1-6
2016Germarostes emarginatus Ballerio and Grebennikov p. 27
2017Germarostes emarginatus Poinar and Ballerio p. 125

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyHybosoridaeErichson 1847
subfamilyCeratocanthinae(Martinez 1968)
tribeCeratocanthiniMartinez 1968
genusGermarostesPaulian 1982
speciesemarginatus()

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.

†Germarostes emarginatus Poinar 2014
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available