Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycetophagidae
Alternative spelling: Mycetophagides
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence et al. 2014 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Elodophthalmidae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Bergininae Esarcinae Mycetophaginae
Type: Mycetophagus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences