Subfamily Scirtinae Fleming 1821 (marsh beetle)

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

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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

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