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Electrocallis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4386374	https://www.gbif.org/species/4386374
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	222978	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=222978

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Aphididae : Electrocallis

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
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
order	Hemiptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Sternorrhyncha
-	Aphidiformes	Schlee 1969
infraorder	Aphidomorpha	Bekker-Migdisova and Aizenberg 1962
superfamily	Aphidoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Aphididae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Drepanosiphinae
genus	Electrocallis	Heie 1967

Scientific Name

Electrocallis Heie, 1967

Name Published In

Heie. 1967. Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26:1-274

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Electrocallis	genus	belongs to Drepanosiphonini	stated with evidence	Heie, 1967
Electrocallis	genus	belongs to Drepanosiphinae	stated with evidence	Heie and Wegierek, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Type Specimen

Electrocallis bakeri Heie, 1967

Designated By

Heie. 1967. Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26:148

Type Information Source

Aphid Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. E. Heie. 1967. Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea), especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26:1-274

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Electrocallis arnoldii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Electrocallis bakeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Electrocallis scudderi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Dimeraphis (Becker-Migdisova, 1973)	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Aphididae : *Dimeraphis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1967	Electrocallis Heie
1973	Electrocallis (Dimeraphis) Becker-Migdisova
2011	Electrocallis Heie and Wegierek p. 32

References

Heie O. E. (1967) Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea), especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber, Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26, 1-274

Becker-Migdisova E. E. (1973) New Aphid Species from Baltic Amber, Paleontological Journal 7 3, 363-376

Heie O. E., Wegierek P. (2011) A list of fossil aphids (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha), Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum 6, 1-82

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

original work (title/other) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wang, Wenli. 1991. Amber aphids (Homoptera; Insecta) in the Beijing Natural History Museum. Memoirs of Beijing Natural History Museum 49:6 - via Aphid Species File

Eastop & Hille Ris Lambers. 1976. Survey of the World’s Aphids, Dr. W. Junk, The Hague 187 - via Aphid Species File

Spolia Zool. Mus. haun. 26 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Heie & Wegierek. 2011. A list of fossil aphids (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha). Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum 6:32 - via Aphid Species File

Nieto Nafría, Favret, Akimoto, Barbagallo, Samiran Chakrabarti, Mier Durante, G.L. Miller, Qiao, Sano, Pérez Hidalgo, Stekolshchikov & Wegierek. 2011. In Nieto Nafría & Favret [Ed.]. Register of genus-group taxa of Aphidoidea. Registers of Family-Group and Genus-Group Taxa of Aphidoidea (Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha), Universidad de León, León 197 - via Aphid Species File

Heie. 1967. Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26:31, 135, 147 - via Aphid Species File

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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