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Isomira

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Description

Isomira is a genus of comb-clawed beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae subfamily Alleculinae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomira, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4405755	https://www.gbif.org/species/4405755
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	228875	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=228875

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : Isomira

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Tenebrionidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Alleculinae
tribe	Alleculini	Laporte 1840
subtribe	Gonoderina	Seidlitz 1896
genus	Isomira	Mulsant 1856

Scientific Name

Isomira Mulsant, 1856

Name Published In

Hist. Nat. Col. France, Pectinipèdes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Isomira	genus	belongs to Tenebrionidae	stated with evidence	Wickham, 1914
Isomira	genus	belongs to Alleculini	stated with evidence	Kirejtshuk et al., 2008
Isomira	genus	belongs to Gonoderina	stated with evidence	Bousquet et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (43%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. F. Wickham. 1914. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53:423-494

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomira

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Isomira (Isomira) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Isomira (Mucheimira) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Isomira acuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira alticola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira anaspiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira angusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira antennalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira antennata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira arenaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira aurora ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Isomira avula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira brevicollis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira caucasica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira championi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira comstocki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira costessii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira damnata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira estrellana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira euboica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira evanescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira florissantensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Isomira formosana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira funerea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira genistae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira granifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira granulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira hispanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira howdeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira hypocrita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira icteropa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira iowensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira luscitiosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira marcida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira matsumurai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira melanophtalma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira mexicana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira monticola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira murina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira nitida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira nitidula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira oblongula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira obsoleta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira ochropus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira oertzeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira ophthalmica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira ovulum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira parvula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira parvuloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira paupercula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira pulla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira quadristriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira rotundata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira ruficollis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira scutellaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira semiflava species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira sericea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira subaenea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira subserrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira testacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira umbellatarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira valida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Isomira variabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Asiomira Dubrovina, 1973	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : *Asiomira*
Paraisomira Dubrovina, 1982	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : *Paraisomira*
Cistela	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : *Cistela*
Isomera Fairmaire, 1866	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : *Isomera*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1856	Isomira Mulsant
1914	Isomira Wickham p. 486
2008	Isomira Kirejtshuk et al.
2018	Isomira Bousquet et al. p. 252
2019	Isomira Nabozhenko p. 5

References

Wickham H. F. (1914) New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 53, 423-494

Kirejtshuk A. G., Merkl O., et al (2008) A new species of the genus Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Diaperinae) from the Baltic amber and checklist of the fossil Tenebrionidae, Zoosystematica Rossica 17, 131-137

Bousquet Y., Thomas D. B., et al (2018) Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America, ZooKeys 728, 1-455

Nabozhenko M. V. (2019) The fossil record of darkling beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Geosciences 9 514, 1-20

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hist. Nat. Col. France, Pectinipèdes - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Marshall JD (1970) Isomira Mulsant in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Alleculidae): species of eastern North America concluded. The Coleopterists Bulletin 24: 88-95. - via Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition.

Gustafsson, B. (Col.) (2004) Catalogus Coleopterorum Sueciae. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Excelfil hämtad från http://www.nrm.se/en/catalogus.html.se. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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