Insecta - Coleoptera - Phoroschizidae
Synonym: Schizophoridae Ponomarenko 1968 [replaced name]
Full reference: P. Bouchard and Y. Bousquet. 2020. Additions and corrections to "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys 922:65-139
Parent taxon: Schizocoleoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bouchard and Bousquet 2020, Carpenter 1992 and Kirejtshuk and Prokin 2018
Sister taxa: Schizocoleidae, Coleocatiniidae
Subtaxa: Abrohadeocoleodes Camaricopterus Catabrycus Circularva Dikerocoleus Hadeocoleodes Hadeocoleus Homocatabrycus Lethocoleus Malmelater Menopraesagus Parathnesidius Pesus Phoroschizus Praesagus Salebrocoleus Salebroferus Schizophorinus Schizophoroides Sinoschizala Sodovia Tersoides Tersus Thnesidius Triassocoleus Xyphosternum
Type: Phoroschizus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mongolia (1 collection)
• Jurassic of China (4), Germany (6), Kazakhstan (6), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mongolia (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (6), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 34 collections including 80 occurrences