Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Alternative spelling: Dendrometridae
Synonym: Denticollinae Stein and Weise 1877
Full reference: J. Gistel. 1848. Faunula monacensis cantharologica. Isis von Oken
Parent taxon: Elateridae according to M. Motyka et al. 2026
See also Barsevskis 2005, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Kundrata et al. 2020, Kundrata et al. 2021, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nabozhenko et al. 2024 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Acmaeodera burmitina, Adocetus, Agrypninae, Artinama, Bilineariselater, Cardiophorinae, Cretocardiophorus, Cretoelaterium, Cryptagriotes, Cryptocoelus, Elater maculatus, Elateridium, Elaterinae, Elaterites, Elaterium, Gripecolous, Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Ludiophanes, Mercata, Mionelater, Negastriinae, Omalisinae, Ovivagina, Paralithomerus, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Protagrypninae, Protelaterinae, Protocardiophorus, Pseudocardiophorites, Silicernius, Sinoelaterium, Spheniscosomus, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae, Tetraraphes, Turonelater
Subtaxa: Cretoathous Dendrometrini Dimini Oxynopterini Plastocerini Prosternini Selatosomini
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of China (3), Germany (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Czechia (1), Germany (1), Lithuania (1), United States (8: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of France (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 27 collections including 49 occurrences