Family Pyrrhocoridae Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 (true bug)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Pyrrhocoridae
Alternative spelling: Pyrrhocorides
Full reference: C. J. B. Amyot and J. G. Audinet-Serville. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères 1-676
Parent taxon: Pyrrhocoroidea according to J. Szwedo 2018
See also Cassis and Schuh 2010, Kerzhner 2001 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Largidae, Rhepocoris
Subtaxa: Dysdercus Pyrrhocoris
Type: Pyrrhocoris
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)