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Family Melandryidae Leach 1815 (false darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

Alternative spelling: Melyandrida

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to Y. D. Li et al. 2022

See also Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioidinae, Liaoximordellidae, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Prototrichalus, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae

Subtaxa: Cicindelopsis Melandryinae Osphyinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Utah)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 15 collections including 47 occurrences

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