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Tetratoma

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Description

Tetratoma is a genus of polypore fungus beetles in the family Tetratomidae. There are about 19 described species in Tetratoma.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratoma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7499206	https://www.gbif.org/species/7499206
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	302739	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=302739

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Pentatomidae : Tetratoma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tetratomidae : Tetratoma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

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	Tetratomidae
subfamily	Tetratominae	Billberg 1820
genus	Tetratoma	Signoret 1851

Scientific Name

Tetratoma Signoret, 1851

Name Published In

Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) 9

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Insecta	stated with evidence	Fabricius, 1790
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated with evidence	Herbst, 1791
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Eleuterata	stated with evidence	Fabricius, 1798
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Diaperialae	stated with evidence	Latreille, 1802
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Tetratomaedes	stated without evidence	Billberg, 1820
Tetratoma	genus	belongs to Tetratominae	stated with evidence	Alekseev, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (75%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. C. Fabricius. 1790. Nova insectorum genera. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1(1):213-238

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratoma

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tetratoma (Abstrulia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Tetratoma concolor species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1790	Tetratoma Fabricius p. 217
1791	Tetratoma Herbst p. 85
1798	Tetratoma Fabricius p. 176
1802	Tetratoma Latreille p. 163
1820	Tetratoma Billberg p. 34
2013	Tetratoma Alekseev p. 132

References

Fabricius J. C. Nova insectorum genera, Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1 1, 213-238

Herbst J. F. W. , Natursystem Aller Bekannten in- und Ausländischen Insekten als Eine Fortsezzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Der Käfer IV. Theil. I, 1-112

Fabricius J. C. , Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae, 1-572

Latreille P. A. , Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième, 1-467

Billberg G. J. , Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg, 1-138

Alekseev V. I. (2013) The first species of the family Tetratomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 13, 131-135

Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) 9 - 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

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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