Insecta - Coleoptera - Tetratomidae
Alternative spellings: Tetratomaedes, Tetratomini
Full reference: G. J. Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg 1-138
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Casey 1900, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Soriano and Pollock 2014
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Bellimordellidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Cretanaspis, Elodophthalmidae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mirimordellidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Praemordellidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Wuhuidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Eustrophinae Hallomeninae Penthinae Piseninae Tetratominae
Type: Tetratoma
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Colorado collection)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cretaceous of Ecuador (1), France (1), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences