Insecta - Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Alternative spelling: Cholevidae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Leiodidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bao and Antunes-Carvalho 2020, Bouchard et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Perkovsky 2009, Perreau 2019 and Perreau and Haelewaters 2021
Sister taxa: Agaricophagus, Camiarinae, Catopocerinae, Cholevinus, Leiodinae, Leptininae, Platypsyllinae
Subtaxa: Anemadini Cholevini Oritocatopini Ptomaphagini
Type: Choleva
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1), Spain (1)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence