Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Alternative spelling: Melyrides
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Cleroidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Gimmel et al. 2019, Kolibáč and Huang 2019, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Robertson et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Acanthocnemidae, Biphyllidae, Byturidae, Chaetosomatidae, Cleridae, Juraniscus, Lophocateridae, Mathesius, Peltidae, Phloiophilidae, Phycosecidae, Prionoceridae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniidae, Rhadalidae, Shartegopsis, Thanerocleridae, Thymalidae, Trogossitidae
Subtaxa: Dasytinae Malachiinae Melyrinae Troglocollops
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (17), the United Kingdom (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of China (1)
Total: 38 collections including 48 occurrences