Subfamily Necrophilinae Newton 1997 (primitive carrion beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Agyrtidae

Full reference: A. F. Newton. 1997. Review of Agyrtidae (Coleoptera), with a new genus and species from New Zealand. Annales Zoologici 47:111-156

Parent taxon: Agyrtidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Newton 1997 and Strelnikova et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Agyrtinae, Eosilphites, Mesecanus, Ponomarenkia, Prosilpha, Pterolomatinae, Sinosilphia

Subtaxa: Palaeonecrophilus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Khasurty (PIN collection 5026) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

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