Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Alternative spelling: Scirtesidae
Synonym: Elodiidae Shuckard 1839
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Scirtoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Boleopsidae, Decliniidae, Elodophthalmidae
Subtaxa: Mesernobiinae Miocyphon Molinernobius Scirtinae Sinodryopitidae
Type: Scirtes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Colorado collections)
• Miocene of Mexico (1)
• Eocene of China (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Jordan (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 25 collections including 65 occurrences