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
Type: Mysteriomorphus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences