Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1961. Superorder Coleopteroidea, in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85:393-469
Parent taxon: Archostemata according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard and Bousquet 2020
Sister taxa: Anthocoleus, Argentinocupes, Asiocoleoidea, Bothynophora, Brachilatus, Celocoleus, Clathrocupes, Conexicoxa, Cupediformia, Cupedites, Cupedoidea, Dictyocoleus, Doggeriopsis, Eumecoleus, Euteticoleus, Gansucupes, Hebeicoleus, Hebeicupes, Helopides, Ironicus, Kargalarva, Katapontisus, Kelidus, Lecanopteryx, Longaevicupes, Metacupes, Moravocoleus perditus, Nannocurculionites, Notocupedini, Notocupes, Parabuprestites, Paracurculionites, Paradoggeria, Priacma corrupta, Priacma longicapitis, Priacma oculata, Priacma striata, Pseudosilphites, Rhabdocupes, Schizocoleoidea, Stigmenamma, Synodus, Tentyridium, Tetrocupes, Tillyardiopsis
Subtaxa: Rhombocoleidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (12), South Africa (1)
Total: 14 collections including 19 occurrences