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Agrilus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Agrilus was named by Curtis (1825). It is extant. It is the type genus of Agrilini, Agrilina.

It was assigned to Agrilinae by Zhang (1989); and to Agrilina by Bellamy (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Agrilus Curtis
1989Agrilus Zhang p. 126
2008Agrilus Bellamy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyAgrilinaeLaporte 1835
tribeAgriliniLaporte 1835
subtribeAgrilinaLaporte 1835
genusAgrilusCurtis 1825

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.

G. Agrilus Curtis 1825
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Agrilus baueri von Heyden 1862
Agrilus corrugatus Zhang 1989
Agrilus liragus Barter and Brown 1949
Agrilus praepolitus Wickham 1914
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.20000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) A. praepolitus (106384)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany A. baueri (123945)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97China (Shandong) A. corrugatus (128550)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom A. sp. (168264 168265 168269 168271)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Warwickshire) A. sp. (169389)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) A. liragus (169353)