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Micropeplinae
Taxonomy
Micropeplida was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. Its type is Micropeplus.
It was corrected as Micropeplidae by Crowson (1981); it was reranked as the subfamily Micropeplinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2014), Jiang et al. (2020), Cai et al. (2022), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Staphylinoidea by Crowson (1981); and to Staphylinidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2014), Jiang et al. (2020), Cai et al. (2022), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
It was corrected as Micropeplidae by Crowson (1981); it was reranked as the subfamily Micropeplinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2014), Jiang et al. (2020), Cai et al. (2022), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Staphylinoidea by Crowson (1981); and to Staphylinidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2014), Jiang et al. (2020), Cai et al. (2022), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1981 | Micropeplidae Crowson p. 695 |
| 1995 | Micropeplinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2001 | Micropeplinae Herman p. 183 |
| 2011 | Micropeplinae Bouchard et al. |
| 2014 | Micropeplinae Cai and Huang p. 814 |
| 2020 | Micropeplinae Jiang et al. p. 2 |
| 2022 | Micropeplinae Cai et al. |
| 2024 | Micropeplinae Jenkins Shaw et al. p. 118 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. Micropeplinae Leach 1815
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G. Micropeplus Latreille 1809
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Micropeplus caelatus Erichson 1839
Micropeplus cribratus LeConte 1863
Micropeplus fulvus Erichson 1840
†Micropeplus hoogendorni Matthews 1970
†Micropeplus hopkinsi Matthews 1970
Micropeplus laticollis Maklin 1853
†Micropeplus macrofulvus Gersdorf 1976
Micropeplus nelsoni Campbell 1989
†Micropeplus pengweii Jiang et al. 2020
Micropeplus porcatus Paykull 1789
Micropeplus punctatus LeConte 1863
Micropeplus staphylinoides Marsham 1802
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aptian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 121.40000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.2 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.2 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | Russian Federation (Buryatia) | Micropeplinae indet. (113349 113350) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Micropeplus pengweii (201881) Protopeplus cretaceus (161726) | |
| Messinian | USA (Alaska) | Micropeplus hoogendorni, Micropeplus hopkinsi, Kalissus nitidus, Micropeplus tesserula (123352) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Micropeplus macrofulvus (109196) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Alaska) | Micropeplus hopkinsi (162793) | |
| Gelasian | Greenland | Kalissus nitidus (160109 160144) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Warwickshire) | Micropeplus sp. (169400) Micropeplus staphylinoides, Micropeplus caelatus (169391) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom | Micropeplus fulvus (168266) Micropeplus staphylinoides (168268) Micropeplus staphylinoides, Micropeplus porcatus, Micropeplus caelatus (168272) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Washington) | Kalissus nitidus, Micropeplus cribratus (157092) Kalissus nitidus, Micropeplus punctatus (167662 169380) Micropeplus laticollis, Micropeplus nelsoni (169379) Micropeplus punctatus (169375 169376 169377 169378) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (British Columbia) | Micropeplus laticollis (167673) |