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Tetratominae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tetratomidae

Taxonomy
Tetratominae was named by Billberg (1820). It is extant. Its type is Tetratoma.

It was assigned to Tetratomidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Nikitsky (1998), Alekseev (2013) and Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa
Archaeolupropini, Tetratoma (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Tetratominae Billberg p. 34
1995Tetratominae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 786
1998Tetratominae Nikitsky p. 16
2013Tetratominae Alekseev p. 132
2022Tetratominae 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
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyTetratomidae()
subfamilyTetratominae
subfamilyTetratominae

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.

Subfm. Tetratominae Billberg 1820
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Tr. †Archaeolupropini Nabozhenko et al. 2023
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G. †Archaeoluprops Nabozhenko et al. 2023
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†Archaeoluprops groehni Nabozhenko et al. 2023
G. Tetratoma Fabricius 1790
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Subg. Tetratoma (Abstrulia) Casey 1900
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Subg. Tetratoma (Incolia) Casey 1900
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 38.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Archaeoluprops groehni (110735)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Tetratoma nikitskyi (123419)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) Tetratoma concolor (169347)