Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Invalid subtaxa: Colydiidae Billberg 1820 [replaced name], Colydiides Billberg 1820 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to Y. D. Li et al. 2024
See also Alekseev and Bukejs 2016, Alekseev and Nabozhenko 2023, Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Poinar and Vega 2020
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Bellimordellidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Cretanaspis, Elodophthalmidae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mirimordellidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Praemordellidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Wuhuidae
Subtaxa: Colydiinae Cretomysteria Phloeonemites Rhagoderidea Syntarsus Zopherinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of French Polynesia (3 collections), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California, Hawaii)
• Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of Germany (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (8), United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (6)
Total: 33 collections including 66 occurrences