Insecta - Coleoptera - Salpingidae
Alternative spelling: Salpingides
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to P. Bouchard et al. 2011
See also Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Anthicidae, Apotomouridae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Eurygenius wickhami, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Liaoximordellidae, Macrosiagon ebboi, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Stoliinae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Aegialitinae Arra Dacoderinae Inopeplinae Othniinae Salpinginae
Type: Salpingus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cretaceous of Spain (2)
Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences