Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative spelling: Platypodidae
Synonym: Tesserocerinae Strohmeyer 1914
Parent taxon: Curculionidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bright and Poinar 1994, Crowson 1981, Davis and Engel 2007, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Legalov 2015, Legalov 2019, Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015, Shin et al. 2018 and Solórzano-Kraemer and Cognato 2021
Sister taxa: Brachycerinae, Dryophthorinae, Erirhininae, Brachycerites, Ocladiinae, Raymondionyminae
Subtaxa: Diapodini Mecopelmini Platypodidarum Platypodidarum ferrarae Platypodini Tesserocerini
Type: Platypus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (2 collections), the United Kingdom (4)
• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Ethiopia (2), Italy (2), Mexico (6)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 25 collections including 45 occurrences