Superfamily Lymexyloidea Fleming 1821 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera

Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56

Parent taxon: Cucujiformia according to J. Batelka et al. 2025

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Robertson et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Cleroidea, Coccinelloidea, Cucujoidea, Erotyloidea, Nitiduloidea, Parandrexidae, Petratypus, Phytophaga, Tenebrionoidea, Wabbelidae

Subtaxa: Hylecoetidae Lymexylidae

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Type: Lymexylon

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Germany (1)

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

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Myanmar (3)

Total: 10 collections including 14 occurrences

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