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Smicripidae (palmetto beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Smicripidae

Taxonomy
Smicripidae was named by Horn (1879). It is extant. Its type is Smicrips.

It was assigned to Cucujoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995) and Robertson et al. (2015); and to Nitiduloidea by Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Mesosmicrips, Smicrips (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Smicripidae Horn
1995Smicripidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2015Smicripidae Robertson et al.
2022Smicripidae 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
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyNitiduloidea
familySmicripidaeHorn 1879
familySmicripidaeHorn 1879

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. Smicripidae Horn 1879 [palmetto beetle]
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G. †Mesosmicrips Kirejtshuk 2017
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Mesosmicrips cretacea Cai and Huang 2016
Mesosmicrips sunae Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2023
G. Smicrips LeConte 1878
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Smicrips europeus Kirejtshuk and Nel 2008
Smicrips fudalai Kupryjanowicz et al. 2019
Smicrips gorskii Bukejs and Kirejtshuk 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available