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, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioidinae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Prototrichalus, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae
Subtaxa: Eleticinae Meloinae Microbasis Nemognathinae
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