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Family Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Meloidae

Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Elodophthalmidae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae

Subtaxa: Eleticinae Meloinae Microbasis Nemognathinae

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Type: Meloe

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (1: Texas collection)

• Pliocene of Mexico (1)

• Miocene of China (1), Croatia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (3), Italy (1)

• Oligocene of Brazil (1), Germany (1)

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

Total: 15 collections including 21 occurrences

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