Family Kateretidae Kirby 1837 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Kateretidae

Alternative spelling: Catheretidae

Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325

Parent taxon: Nitiduloidea according to Q. Zhao et al. 2023

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Cline et al. 2014, Crowson 1981, Peris and JelĂ­nek 2019, Poinar and Brown 2017 and Robertson et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Helotidae, Monotomidae, Nitidulidae, Protocucujidae, Smicripidae, Sphindidae

Subtaxa: Amartus Antirhelinae Brachypterolus Cercus Cretaretes Electrumeretes Eoceniretes Furcalabratum Heterhelus Kateretes Lebanoretes Pelretes Polliniretes Protokateretes Scaporetes

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Type: Kateretes

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

• Eocene of France (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), Myanmar (4)

Total: 11 collections including 22 occurrences

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