Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae
Alternative spelling: Melyandrida
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to J. Batelka et al. 2018
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, 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, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Stoliinae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Cicindelopsis Melandryinae Osphyinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Utah)
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 11 collections including 23 occurrences