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Homoconnus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4720446	https://www.gbif.org/species/4720446
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	296917	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=296917

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Homoconnus

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	Staphyliniformia	Lameere 1900
superfamily	Staphylinoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Staphylinidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Scydmaeninae
-	Scydmaenitae	Leach 1815
tribe	Glandulariini
genus	Homoconnus	Sharp 1887

Scientific Name

Homoconnus Sharp, 1887

Name Published In

Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Col., 2 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Homoconnus	genus	belongs to Scydmaenidae	stated with evidence	Franz, 1983
Homoconnus	genus	belongs to Cyrtoscydmini	stated with evidence	Newton and Franz, 1998
Homoconnus	genus	belongs to Glandulariini	stated with evidence	Jałoszyński and Perkovsky, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. Sharp. 1887. Fam. Scydmaenidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. Vol II, Part 1

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Homoconnus armipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus batesii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus bolivianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus bonvouloirii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus bordoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus chiapasensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus conservatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Homoconnus dentipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus galapagoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus klapperichi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus mirandanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus novus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus parvus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus reichi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus schmidti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus spinipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homoconnus venezolanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Macroplocrates Reitter, 1890	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : *Macroplocrates*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Homoconnus Sharp p. 64
1983	Homoconnus Franz p. 27
1998	Homoconnus Newton and Franz p. 155
2016	Homoconnus Ja?oszy?ski and Perkovsky p. 78
2016	Homoconnus Ja?oszy?ski and Yamamoto p. 60

References

Sharp D. Fam. Scydmaenidae, Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. Vol II, Part 1, 46-71

Franz H. (1983) Fossile Scydmaenidae in Baltischem und Dominikanischem Bernstein (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae), Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 7, 25-29

Newton A. F., Franz H. (1998) World catalog of the genera of Scydmaenidae (Coleoptera), Koleopterologische Rundschau 68, 137-165

Jałoszyński P., Perkovsky E. (2016) Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber, Zootaxa 4157, 1-85

Jałoszyński P., Yamamoto S. (2016) Systematic palaeontology, in Scydmobisetia gen. nov., the first definite Glandulariini from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Cretaceous Research 65, 59-67

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

Hallan, 2000- (as Scydmaenidae) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Col., 2 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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