Family Trogossitidae Latreille 1802 (bark gnawing beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Invalid subtaxa: Ostomatidae Reitter 1882, Temnochilidae [replaced name]

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981 and Lin 1985

Sister taxa: Acanthocnemidae, Biphyllidae, Byturidae, Chaetosomatidae, Cleridae, Juraniscus, Lophocateridae, Mathesius, Melyridae, Peltidae, Phloiophilidae, Phycosecidae, Prionoceridae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniidae, Rhadalidae, Shartegopsis, Thanerocleridae, Thymalidae

Subtaxa: Lithostoma Platokoleos

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Cook Islands (1 collection), French Polynesia (5)

• Miocene of Germany (2)

• Oligocene of Germany (2)

• Eocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Colorado)

• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1)

• Paleocene of France (1), Greenland (2)

• Cretaceous of China (2), France (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)

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

Total: 31 collections including 43 occurrences

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