Family Phengodidae LeConte 1861 (beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Phengodidae
Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Artematopodidae, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Mysteriomorphidae, Omethidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Throscidae
Subtaxa: Phengodinae
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Phengodidae in the database