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Berytidae (stilt bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Berytidae

Taxonomy
Berytidea was named by Fieber (1851). It is extant.

It was corrected as Berytidae by Theobald (1937), Cassis and Schuh (2010) and Szwedo (2018).

It was assigned to Heteroptera by Theobald (1937); and to Lygaeoidea by Cassis and Schuh (2010) and Szwedo (2018).

Subtaxa
Metacanthus, Neides

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Berytidae Theobald p. 366
2010Berytidae Cassis and Schuh
2018Berytidae Szwedo p. 113

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyLygaeoideaSchilling 1829
familyBerytidae()
familyBerytidae()

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.

Fm. Berytidae Fieber 1851 [stilt bug]
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G. Metacanthus Costa 1847
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Subg. Metacanthus (Megalomerium) Fieber 1859
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G. Neides Latreille 1802
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†Neides oligocenicus Nel 1992
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MP 23 to the top of the Turolian or 33.90000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 28.4 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2333.9 - 28.4France Megalomerium serratum (122535)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Megalomerium serratum (122509) Neides oligocenicus (122501)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Megalomerium serratum (122488)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Spain (Castellon) Berytidae indet. (140796)
Turolian8.7 - 5.333France (Ardèche) Berytidae indet. (156164)