Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae
Synonym: Praemordellidae Shchegoleva-Barovskaya 1929
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection), United States (2: Colorado, Washington)
• Miocene of Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Colorado, Montana)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), China (2), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 30 collections including 62 occurrences