Subfamily Melandryinae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Melandryidae according to Y. D. Li et al. 2022

See also Alekseev 2015, Alekseev and Bukejs 2015, Alekseev and Bukejs 2021, Alekseev and Pankowski 2020, Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Bukejs and Alekseev 2015, Cai et al. 2022, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Tihelka et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Cicindelopsis, Osphyinae

Subtaxa: Dircaeini Electroabdera Hypulini Orchesiini Quasianisoxya Serropalpini Symphora Xylitini

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 14 collections including 46 occurrences

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