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Cyphon

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5007531	https://www.gbif.org/species/5007531
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	226400	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=226400

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Scirtidae : Cyphon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Scirtidae : Cyphon

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	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Scirtoidea	Fleming 1821
family	Scirtidae
subfamily	Scirtinae	Fleming 1821
genus	Cyphon	Paykull 1799

Scientific Name

Cyphon Paykull, 1799

Name Published In

Paykull, Gustav. 1799. Fauna Svecica Insecta. Joh. F. Edman, Upsaliae. Vol. 2: 1-234;.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cyphon	genus	belongs to Cyphonini	stated with evidence	Yablokov-Khnzorian, 1961
Cyphon	genus	belongs to Scirtesidae	stated with evidence	Kirejtshuk and Nel, 2008
Cyphon	genus	belongs to Scirtinae	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (9.1%)

First Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Paykull. 1799. Fauna Suecica: Insecta, Tomus II

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cyphon acuminatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon affinis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon ainu species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon albanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon atratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon atripennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon caffer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon connatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon conspicuous species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon degoutteti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon derelictum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon designandus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon difficilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon flavescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon formosanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon furcillatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon gallicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cyphon gracilicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon groehni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon herthae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon hilaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon hoffeinsorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon humberti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon infuscatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon insularius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon keilbachi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon kongsbergensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon krynickyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon laevipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon lepidulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon lobanovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cyphon longiusculus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon lucidus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon macedonicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon magicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon marginipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon modestus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon nebulosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon obscurellus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon ochraceus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon ovalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon pallasi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon palustris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon pictus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon poggi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon pubescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon punctipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon reitteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon ruficeps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon scurrula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon shevyrevi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cyphon solarii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon unguiculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyphon wichardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Oreocyphon Klausnitzer, 2008	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Scirtidae : *Oreocyphon*
Cyplwn	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Scirtidae : *Cyplwn*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1799	Cyphon Paykull p. 117
1886	Contacyphon Des Gozis p. 23
1961	Cyphon Yablokov-Khnzorian p. 114
2008	Cyphon Kirejtshuk and Nel
2011	Cyphon Bouchard et al.
2013	Contacyphon Zwick et al.

References

Paykull G. , Fauna Suecica: Insecta, Tomus II, 1-234

Yablokov-Khnzorian S. M. (1961) Predstaviteli semeystva Helodidae (Coleoptera) iz baltiyskogo yantarya, Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1961 1, 108-116

Kirejtshuk A. G., Nel A. (2008) New beetles of the suborder Polyphaga from the lowermost Eocene French amber (Insecta: Coleoptera), Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 44, 419-442

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Klausnitzer, B. (1994) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Nilsson, A.N. (1996) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Freude, et al. (1971) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Young, Daniel K. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds., 2002: Family 37. Scirtidae Fleming 1821. American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 87-89. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

SN2000/Lawrence, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Zwick, Peter, Berhard Klausnitzer, and Rafal Ruta, 2013: Contacyphon Gozis, 1886 removed from synonymy (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) to accommodate species so far combined with the invalid name, Cyphon Paykull, 1799. Entomologische Blatter und Coleoptera, no. 109. 337-353. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Faun. Suec., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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