Superfamily Lymexyloidea Fleming 1821 (beetle)
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 C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Robertson et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Apophisandridae, Cleroidea, Coccinelloidea, Cucujoidea, Erotyloidea, Nitiduloidea, Parandrexidae, Petratypus, Phytophaga, Tenebrionoidea, Wabbelidae
Subtaxa: Lymexylidae
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