Family Ripiphoridae Laporte 1840 (wedge shaped beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae

Alternative spelling: Rhipiphorites

Full reference: F. L. Laporte. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une Introduction Renfermant l’Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M. Brullé. Tome Deuxième 1-563

Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to Y. Li et al. 2025

See also Batelka et al. 2018, Batelka et al. 2016, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Hsiao and Huang 2017 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, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae

Subtaxa: Hemirhipidiinae Pelecotominae Ptilophorinae Ripidiinae Ripiphorinae Salignacicola

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (7), United States (1: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Canada (1: Alberta), France (2), Myanmar (11), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 31 collections including 46 occurrences

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