Insecta - Coleoptera - Taldycupedidae
Alternative spellings: Taldycupedinae, Taldycupidae
Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1961. Superorder Coleopteroidea, in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85:393-469
Parent taxon: Metacoleoptera according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Carpenter 1992, Kirejtshuk 2020 and Ponomarenko 1969
Sister taxa: Ademosynidae, Adephaga, Archostemata, Asiocoleidae, Myxophaga, Peltosynidae, Polyphaga, Ponomarenkiumidae, Triadocupedidae
Subtaxa: Afrotaldycupes Mesothoris Simmondsia Taldycupes Tecticupes Tychticupes Tychticupes ussovi Tychticupoides Uskaticupes Uskaticupes javorskyi Wuchangia Yiyangicupes Yuxianocoleus
Type: Taldycupes
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Jurassic of China (2)
• Triassic of Australia (2)
• Permian of China (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (8), South Africa (2)
Total: 17 collections including 35 occurrences