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Georissidae (disused)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Georissidae

Taxonomy
Georyssidae was named by Laporte (1819). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Georissinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995) and Bouchard et al. (2011); it was corrected as Georissidae by Short and Fikáček (2013) and Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995) and Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Hydrophiloidea by Crowson (1981), Short and Fikáček (2013) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1819Georyssidae Laporte
1981Georyssidae Crowson p. 694
1995Georissinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Georissinae Bouchard et al.
2013Georissidae Short and Fikáček
2022Georissidae 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
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyGeorissidae(Laporte 1819)
familyGeorissidae(Laporte 1819)

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. Georissidae Laporte 1819
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available