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 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
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