Tribe Tesserocerini Strohmeyer 1914 (ambrosia beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Parent taxon: Platypodinae according to D. Peris and M. M. Solórzano Kraemer 2015
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bright and Poinar 1994, Legalov 2015 and Legalov 2019
Sister taxa: Diapodini, Mecopelmini, Platypodidarum, Platypodidarum ferrarae, Platypodini
Subtaxa: Cenocephalus Chaetastus Eoplatypus Mitosoma Tesserocerina
Type: Tesserocerus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (6)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 14 collections including 29 occurrences