Insecta - Coleoptera - Eucnemidae
Alternative spelling: Melasidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Eucnemidae according to R. L. Otto 2023
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Muona 1993, Muona 1993, Muona 2020, Muona 2021 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Anischiinae, Beattieellus, Cretopoena, Eucneminae, Fiegelia, Macraulacinae, Palaeoxeninae, Perothopinae, Phlegoninae, Phyllocerinae, Pseudomeninae, Schizophilinae
Subtaxa: Calyptocerini Dirhagini Epiphanini Melasini Neocharini Xylobiini
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: Colorado, Utah)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2)
Total: 12 collections including 30 occurrences