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Mycterinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycteridae

Taxonomy
Mycterinae was named by Oken (1843). It is extant. Its type is Mycteria.

It was corrected as Mycteriinae by Hay (1930) and Wetmore (1956); it was misspelled as Mycteriinae by Wetmore (1940), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Ciconiidae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); and to Mycteridae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Mycterinae Oken
1930Mycteriinae Hay p. 297
1940Mycteriinae Wetmore p. 18
1956Mycteriinae Wetmore p. 22
1995Mycterinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 787
2011Mycterinae Bouchard et al. p. 443
2022Mycterinae 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
familyMycteridaeOken 1843
subfamilyMycterinaeOken 1843
subfamilyMycterinaeOken 1843

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. Mycterinae Oken 1843
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G. Mycterus Clairville 1798
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Mycterus molassicus Heer 1847
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available