Tribe Malachiini Fleming 1821 (soft-winged flower beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Malachiinae according to S. E. Tshernyshev and A. A. Legalov 2023
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Gimmel et al. 2019, Tihelka et al. 2021 and Tshernyshev 2020
Sister taxa: Attalini, Colotini, Palpattalini, Troglopini
Subtaxa: Attalus Burmalachius Collops Malachiina Malachius Premalachius
Type: Malachius
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 5 collections including 7 occurrences