Subfamily Alleculinae Laporte 1840 (comb-clawed beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative spellings: Alleculidae, Alleculites

Full reference: F. L. Laporte. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une Introduction Renfermant l’Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M. Brullé. Tome Deuxième 1-563

Parent taxon: Tenebrionidae according to M. V. Nabozhenko et al. 2024

See also Batelka et al. 2018, Bouchard et al. 2011, Bouchard et al. 2021, Bousquet et al. 2018, Cai et al. 2022, Chang et al. 2016, Crowson 1981, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nabozhenko 2019, Nabozhenko et al. 2019, Nabozhenko and Perkovsky 2023 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Alleculini Cteniopodini Dascillus exiguus

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Type: Allecula

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of China (3), the Dominican Republic (2), Germany (1), Mexico (1)

• Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 21 collections including 35 occurrences

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