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Family Zopheridae Solier 1834 (ironclad beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae

Invalid subtaxa: Colydiidae Billberg 1820 [replaced name], Colydiides Billberg 1820 [replaced name]

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

See also Alekseev and Bukejs 2016, Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Poinar and Vega 2020

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

Subtaxa: Colydiinae Cretomysteria Phloeonemites Rhagoderidea Syntarsus Usechinae Zopherinae

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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 (4), United States (3: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (6)

Total: 29 collections including 49 occurrences

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