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
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