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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4725121	https://www.gbif.org/species/4725121
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	248545	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=248545

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Nilionidae : Nilio

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : Nilio

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	Nilioninae
genus	Nilio	Latreille 1802

Scientific Name

Nilio Latreille, 1802

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nilio	genus	belongs to Nilionini	stated with evidence	Poinar and Brown, 2011
Nilio	genus	belongs to Nilioninae	stated with evidence	Bousquet et al., 2018

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)

G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2011. Descriptions of a broad-nosed weevil (Eudiagogini: Curculionidae) and false ladybird beetle (Nilionini: Nilionidae) in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 23:231-235

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nilio amazonicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio chiriquensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio coccinelloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio dominicana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio dominicanum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Nilio fulvopilosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio insuturale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio lanatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio lebasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio pilosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio rubrocastaneum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio ruficeps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio sallei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio testaceum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio thomsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nilio villosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1829	Nilio Latreille
2011	Nilio Poinar and Brown p. 233
2018	Nilio Bousquet et al. p. 50
2019	Nilio Nabozhenko p. 13

References

Poinar G., Brown A. E. (2011) Descriptions of a broad-nosed weevil (Eudiagogini: Curculionidae) and false ladybird beetle (Nilionini: Nilionidae) in Dominican amber, Historical Biology 23, 231-235

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

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

GBIF/Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sonnini's Buffon, Ins., 10 - 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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