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Prometopia  Erichson, 1843
Taxonomic Serial No.: 835500

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderCucujiformia Lameere, 1938  
                                        SuperfamilyNitiduloidea Latreille, 1802  
                                           FamilyNitidulidae Latreille, 1802 – sap beetles, nitidules  
                                              SubfamilyPrometopiinae Böving and Craighead, 1931  
                                                 GenusPrometopia Erichson, 1843  
    Direct Children:  
                                                    Species Prometopia bidentata Schaeffer, 1909  
                                                    Species Prometopia sexmaculata (Say, 1825)  
       

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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, database (version May 2025)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2024). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Prometopia   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Cline, Andrew R., Trevor R. Smith, Kelly Miller, Matthew Moulton, Michael Whiting, and Paolo Audisio  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification and formalization of the family Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Entomology, vol. 39, no. 4   
  Page(s): 758-772   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0307-6970   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/syen.12084   
  Reference for: Prometopia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea   
  Page(s): 311-315   
  Publisher: CRC Press LLC   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8493-0954-9   
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  Reference for: Prometopia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Parsons, Carl T.  
  Publication Date: 1943   
  Article/Chapter Title: A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3   
  Page(s): 121-278   
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