Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Synonyms: Cyphoninae Stephens 1829, Helodinae Shuckard 1839
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Scirtidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Yablokov-Khnzorian 1961
Sister taxa: Mesernobiinae, Miocyphon, Molinernobius, Sinodryopitidae
Subtaxa: Contacyphon Cyphonini Elodes Helodopsini Microcara Microcarini Scirtes Varcalium
Type: Scirtes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Colorado collections)
• Miocene of Mexico (1)
• Eocene of China (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (4)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 20 collections including 58 occurrences