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Epicauta

Description

Epicauta is a genus of beetles in the blister beetle family, Meloidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1834 by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean. Epicauta is distributed nearly worldwide, with species native to all continents except Australia. Surveys have found the genus to be particularly diverse in northern Arizona in the United States. Few species occur in the Arctic, with none farther north than the southern Northwest Territory of Canada.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)7387443https://www.gbif.org/species/7387443
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)71898https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=71898
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Meloidae : Epicauta
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)doubtful
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-ColeopteridaKukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
orderColeopteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoideaLatreille 1802
familyMeloidaeGyllenhal 1810
subfamilyMeloinaeGyllenhal 1810
tribeEpicautini
genusEpicautaMannerheim 1843
Scientific NameEpicauta Mannerheim, 1843
Name Published InBull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 16 (2)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Epicautagenusbelongs to Meloidaestated with evidenceWerner, 1969
Epicautagenusbelongs to Epicautinastated with evidenceZaragoza-Caballero and Velasco-de León, 2003
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
Extant Size (PBDB)1 (25%)
First Recorded Appearance37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. F. Zhang. 1989. Fossil Insects From Shanwang, Shandong, China
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicauta

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Epicauta rufithoraca
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
120.4 Ma
Miocene
20.4 Ma
Miocene
Epicauta sanctoruensis
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
15.33 Ma
Miocene
5.33 Ma
Miocene
Epicauta subneglecta
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
137.2 Ma
Eocene
37.2 Ma
Eocene

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Macrobasis Leconte, 1862GBIFgenusAnimalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Meloidae : Macrobasis
Apteropasta Gemminger & Harold, 1870GBIFgenusAnimalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Meloidae : Apteropasta

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1834Epicauta Dejean
1969Epicauta Werner p. 126
1989Epicauta Zhang p. 148
2003Epicauta Zaragoza-Caballero and Velasco-de León p. 156
2011Epicauta Bouchard et al.

References

Zhang J. F. (1989) , Fossil Insects From Shanwang, Shandong, China, 1-459
Werner F. G. (1969) Terrestrial insects of the Rita Blanca lake deposits, Paleoecology of an early Pleistocene lake on the high plains of Texas. Geological Society of America Memoir 113, 123-130
Zaragoza-Caballero S., Velasco-de León P. (2003) Una especie nueva de Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) del Plioceno del Estado de Hidalgo, México, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 20, 154-159
Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972
Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 16 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
CoL2006 - 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
SN2000/Lawrence, 1982, PaleoDB - 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
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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