Insecta - Coleoptera - Elodophthalmidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and D. Azar. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2:15-46
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Cai et al. 2024
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Cai et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Bellimordellidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Cretanaspis, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mirimordellidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Praemordellidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Wuhuidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Elodophthalmus
Type: Elodophthalmus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)