Family Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val 1860 (cryptic slime mold beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Sphindidae
Synonyms: Aspidiphoridae Kiesenwetter 1877, Aspidiphorinae Kiesenwetter 1877
Parent taxon: Nitiduloidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Kirejtshuk 2015, Kirejtshuk et al. 2019, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Li and Cai 2021 and Robertson et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Helotidae, Kateretidae, Monotomidae, Nitidulidae, Protocucujidae, Smicripidae
Subtaxa: Libanopsinae Odontosphindinae Protosphindinae Sphindinae Sphindiphorinae Trematosphindus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (6 collections)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (4), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences