†family Mysteriomorphidae Alekseev and Ellenberger 2019 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mysteriomorphidae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and S. Ellenberger. 2019. A new beetle family, Mysteriomorphidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateriformia incertae sedis), from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Palaeoentomology 2:482-490

Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to R. Kundrata et al. 2024

See also Alekseev and Ellenberger 2019, Cai et al. 2022 and Peris et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Artematopodidae, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Throscidae

Subtaxa: Mysteriomorphus

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Type: Mysteriomorphus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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