Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: S. Chen and C. C. Tan. 1973. A new family of Coleoptera from the Lower Cretaceous of Kansu. Acta Entomologica Sinica 16:169-179
Parent taxon: Umenocoleidae according to S. B. Lee et al. 2024
See also Beutel et al. 2020, Carpenter 1992, Chen and Tan 1973, Lin 1982, Luo et al. 2022, Luo et al. 2022, Nel et al. 2014 and Vršanský 2003
Sister taxa: Alienopterix, Alienopterixinae, Archaeospinapteryx, Blattapterix, Compunctiotypus, Cratovitisma, Elytropterix, Enervipraeala, Laticephalana, Nigropterix, Petropterix, Poikiloprosopon, Ponopterix, Pseudoblattapterix, Pseudojantaropterix, Trapezionotum, Umenopterix, Umenotypus, Vitisminae, Vzrkadlenie
Subtaxa: Umenocoleus minimus Umenocoleus nervosus Umenocoleus sinuatus
Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), South Korea (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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