Family Limnichidae Erichson 1846 (minute marsh loving beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Limnichidae
Parent taxon: Dryopoidea according to Y. D. Li et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Yu et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Actinocerites, Brachypodites, Callirhipidae, Chelonariidae, Cneoglossidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Eulichadidae, Expansifemoria, Heteroceridae, Jiuquanocoleus, Lutrochidae, Mastigocoleidae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae
Subtaxa: Cephalobyrrhinae Hyphalinae Limnichinae Palaeoersachus Platypelochares Thaumastodinae
Type: Limnichus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (8 collections)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence