Family Hydraenidae Mulsant 1844 (minute moss beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydraenidae

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Jäch and Yamamoto 2017 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Agyrtidae, Colonidae, Dasyceridae, Empelidae, Jacobsoniidae, Leiodidae, Ptiliidae, Staphylinidae

Subtaxa: Hydraeninae Ochtebiites Ochthebiinae Prosthetopinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), the United Kingdom (25), United States (12: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (3)

• Paleocene of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1)

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 51 collections including 79 occurrences

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