Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1804. Tableau méthodique des insectes. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Appliquée aux Arts, Principalement à l'Agriculture et à l'Economie Rurale et Domestique 24:129-200
Parent taxon: Elateriformia according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Whalley 1985
Sister taxa: Buprestoidea, Cantharoidea, Dascilloidea, Dryopoidea, Elateroidea, Mesosperchus angulatus, Podabrocephalidae
Subtaxa: Byrrhidae Chelonarium montanum Serecoleus
Type: Byrrhus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: British Columbia, Ontario collections), Greenland (5), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (66), the United Kingdom (13), United States (19: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Miocene of Germany (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of China (1), France (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Jurassic of China (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 127 collections including 185 occurrences