Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Synonym: Adelocerini Gistel 1848 [replaced name]
Full reference: E. Candèze. 1857. Monographie des Élatérides, tome premier. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12:1-400
Parent taxon: Agrypninae according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Barsevskis 2005, Bouchard et al. 2011, Dolin 1980, Kundrata et al. 2020, Tröster 1991, Tröster 1993 and Tröster 1999
Sister taxa: Cretopachyderes, Cryptocardiini, Drilini, Hemirhipini, Oophorini, Pseudomelanactini, Pyrophorini
Subtaxa: Adelocera Ageratus Agrypnus Compsoderus Lacon Litholacon Macropunctum Plagioraphes
Type: Agrypnus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (12)
• Miocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Germany (24), Lithuania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Paleocene of France (1)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (7)
Total: 52 collections including 77 occurrences