Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Synonym: Colydiidae Erichson 1842 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to J. Batelka et al. 2018
See also Alekseev and Bukejs 2016, Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Aderidae, Anthicidae, Apotomouridae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Liaoximordellidae, Macrosiagon ebboi, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Monommatidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Stoliinae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Wuhua
Subtaxa: Cicones Colydiinae Cretomysteria Eucicones Namunaria Phloeonemites Rhagoderidea Syntarsus Usechinae Zopherinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 10 collections including 18 occurrences