Family Lymexylidae Fleming 1821 (ship-timber beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Lymexylidae
Alternative spelling: Lymoxylonidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Lymexyloidea according to J. Batelka et al. 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Li et al. 2022 and Yamamoto 2019
Sister taxon: Hylecoetidae
Subtaxa: Anancites Atractocerinae Lymexylinae
Type: Lymexylon
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 8 collections including 11 occurrences