Family Protopeltidae Crowson 1966 (beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Protopeltidae
Alternative spelling: Protopeltinae
Parent taxon: Cleroidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Gimmel et al. 2019 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Acanthocnemidae, Biphyllidae, Byturidae, Chaetosomatidae, Cleridae, Juraniscus, Lophocateridae, Mathesius, Melyridae, Peltidae, Phloiophilidae, Phycosecidae, Prionoceridae, Rentoniidae, Rhadalidae, Shartegopsis, Thanerocleridae, Thymalidae, Trogossitidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protopeltidae in the database