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Proteleates ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4748143	https://www.gbif.org/species/4748143
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	261355	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=261355

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : Proteleates

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	Tenebrioninae	Latreille 1802
tribe	Bolitophagini	Kirby 1837
genus	Proteleates	Wickham 1914

Scientific Name

Proteleates Wickham, 1914

Name Published In

Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 40

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Proteleates	genus	belongs to Tenebrionidae	stated with evidence	Wickham, 1914
Proteleates	genus	belongs to Blaptini	stated with evidence	Kirejtshuk et al., 2008
Proteleates	genus	belongs to Bolitophagini	stated with evidence	Nabozhenko, 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 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. Twenty new Coleoptera from the Florissant Shales. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 40:257-270

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Proteleates centralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Protelerates Wickham, 1914	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : *Protelerates*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1914	Proteleates Wickham p. 267
2008	Protelerates Kirejtshuk et al. p. 135
2018	Proteleates Bousquet et al. p. 381
2019	Proteleates Nabozhenko p. 5

References

Wickham H. F. (1914) Twenty new Coleoptera from the Florissant Shales, Transactions of the American Entomological Society 40, 257-270

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

Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 40 - 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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