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Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetle)
Taxonomy
Agyrtidae was named by Thomson (1859). It is extant.
It was assigned to Staphylinoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Staphylinoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1859 | Agyrtidae Thomson |
| 1995 | Agyrtidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2011 | Agyrtidae Bouchard et al. |
| 2022 | Agyrtidae Cai et al. |
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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. Agyrtidae Thomson 1859 [primitive carrion beetle]
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G. †Mesecanus Newton 1982
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†Mesecanus communis Ponomarenko 1977
†Mesecanus lintouensis Lin 1985
Invalid names: Mesagyrtes Ponomarenko 1977 [replaced]
Subfm. Necrophilinae Newton 1997
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G. †Palaeonecrophilus Strelnikova et al. 2020
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†Palaeonecrophilus buryaticus Strelnikova et al. 2020
Subfm. Pterolomatinae Thomson 1862
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available