Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae
Parent taxon: Xanthidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Bernuffius, Chlorodiellinae, Cymo, Cymoinae, Eoxanthops, Etisinae, Euxanthinae, Haydnella, Kraussiinae, Liomerinae, Lybia, Nogarolia, Paraxanthodes, Pilumnomimus, Polydectinae, Speocarcininae, Xanthinae, Xanthopsis, Zalasiinae, Zalasius, Zosiminae
Subtaxa: Actaea Actaeodes Actaeops Forestia Gaillardiellus Heteractaea Lambropsis Paractaea Phlyctenodes Pseudophlyctenodes
Type: Actaea
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Jamaica (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida, Flrida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (2)
• Pliocene of Panama (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Italy (11)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Texas)
Total: 29 collections including 41 occurrences