†family Umenocoleidae Chen and Tan 1973 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Synonym: Ponopterixidae Nel et al. 2014

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: Alienoptera according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Bechly 2007, Beutel et al. 2020, Carpenter 1992, Chen and Tan 1973, Lee 2016, Luo et al. 2021, Luo et al. 2022, Nel et al. 2014, Nel et al. 2014, Podstrelená and Sendi 2018 and Vršanský 2003

Sister taxa: Alienopteridae, Umenocoleoidea

Subtaxa: Alienopterix Alienopterixinae Archaeospinapteryx Blattapterix Compunctiotypus Cratovitisma Elytropterix Enervipraeala Laticephalana Nigropterix Petropterix Poikiloprosopon Ponopterix Pseudojantaropterix Trapezionotum Umenocoleus Umenopterix Umenotypus Vitisminae Vzrkadlenie

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Type: Umenocoleus

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (8 collections), China (5), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (2), Lebanon (6), Mongolia (11), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1)

Total: 47 collections including 71 occurrences

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