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
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