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Colonidae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Colonidae

Taxonomy
Coloninae was named by Horn (1880). It is extant. Its type is Colon.

It was reranked as the family Colonidae by Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Liodidae by Crowson (1981); to Leiodidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2017) and Yamamoto (2018); and to Staphylinoidea by Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Colon (type genus), Colonellus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Coloninae Horn
1981Coloninae Crowson p. 695
1995Coloninae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Coloninae Bouchard et al.
2017Coloninae Cai and Huang p. 70
2018Coloninae Yamamoto p. 196
2022Colonidae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyColonidae(Horn 1880)
familyColonidae(Horn 1880)

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. Colonidae Horn 1880
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G. Colon Herbst 1797
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Colon burmiticum Yamamoto 2018
G. Colonellus Szymczakowski 1964
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Colonellus burmiticus Cai and Huang 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available