Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Alternative spelling: Rhipidophoridae
Full reference: M. Gemminger. 1870. New taxa. Catalogus Coleopterorum Hucusque Descriptorum Synonymicus et Systematicus. Tom. VII. Tenebrionidae, Nilionidae, Pythidae, Melandryidae, Lagriidae, Pedilidae, Anthicidae, Pyrochroidae, Mordellidae, Rhipidophoridae, Cantharidae, Oedemeridae 1801-2179
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Batelka et al. 2018, Batelka et al. 2016, Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Hsiao and Huang 2017 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, 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
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 France (2), Myanmar (10), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 28 collections including 42 occurrences