Family Micromalthidae Barber 1913 (telephone pole beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Micromalthidae

Full reference: H. S. Barber. 1913. The remarkable life-history of a new family (Micromalthidae) of beetle. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26:185-190

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981, Kirejtshuk et al. 2010 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Crowsoniellidae, Cupedidae, Magnocoleidae, Magnocoleus, Ommatidae

Subtaxa: Archaeomalthus Cretomalthus Micromalthus Protomalthus

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Type: Micromalthus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (1)

• Eocene of France (1), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), Myanmar (2)

• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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