Insecta - Coleoptera - Throscidae
Synonym: Trixagidae Gistel 1848
Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Muona 2019 and Muona et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Artematopodidae, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Mysteriomorphidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae
Subtaxa: Archaeolus Aulonothroscus Captopus Electrothroscus Jaira Megacephalites Pactopus Palaeothroscini Potergosoma Potergus Pseudopactopus Pseudothroscus Rhomboaspis Throscinae Trixagosoma Trixagus Tyrannothroscus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (3 collections), United States (1: Colorado)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of China (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (4), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (4), Myanmar (2)
• Jurassic of China (1)
Total: 25 collections including 40 occurrences