Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Alternative spelling: Bolitophagidae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Tenebrioninae according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Alekseev and Bukejs 2020, Bouchard et al. 2011, Bousquet et al. 2018, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bolitophagus Eledona Eledonoprius Proteleates Rhipidandrus
Type: Bolitophagus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Poland (1), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence