Subfamily Anchytarsinae Champion 1897 (beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptilodactylidae
Alternative spelling: Anchytarsini
Full reference: G. C. Champion. 1897. Elateridae (part), Dascillidae (part). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. Vol III, Part 1 585-608
Parent taxon: Ptilodactylidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Alekseev and Jäch 2016, Kundrata et al. 2021 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Aphebodactyla, Aploglossinae, Araeopidiinae, Cladotominae, Ptilodactylinae, Ptilodactyloides
Subtaxa: Electrolichas
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)