Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Alternative spellings: Malachidae, Malachiidae, Malachiusidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Melyridae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Gimmel et al. 2019, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Tihelka et al. 2021, Wickham 1912 and Wickham 1914
Sister taxa: Dasytinae, Melyrinae, Troglocollops
Subtaxa: Attalini Colotini Malachiini Palpattalini Troglopini
Type: Malachius
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (1 collection)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 11 collections including 18 occurrences