Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Alternative spelling: Cardiophorites
Full reference: E. Candèze. 1859. Monographie des Élatérides, tome second. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14:1-543
Parent taxon: Elateridae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Barsevskis 2005, Bouchard et al. 2011, Dolin 1976, Dolin 1980, Kundrata et al. 2020, Kundrata et al. 2021, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Yablokov-Khnzorian 1961
Sister taxa: Acmaeodera burmitina, Adocetus, Agrypninae, Artinama, Bilineariselater, Cebrioninae, Cretocardiophorus, Cretoelaterium, Cryptagriotes, Cryptocoelus, Dendrometrinae, Denticollinae, Elater maculatus, Elateridium, Elaterinae, Elaterites, Elaterium, Gripecolous, Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Ludiophanes, Mercata, Mionelater, Negastriinae, Omalisinae, Ovivagina, Paralithomerus, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Protagrypninae, Protocardiophorus, Pseudocardiophorites, Silicernius, Sinoelaterium, Spheniscosomus, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae, Tetraraphes, Thylacosterninae, Turonelater
Subtaxa: Cardiophorus Horistonotus
Type: Cardiophorus
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