Family Artematopodidae Lacordaire 1857 (soft bodied plant beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Artematopodidae

Alternative spellings: Artematopidae, Artematopides

Synonym: Eurypogonidae [replaced name]

Full reference: J. T. Lacordaire. 1857. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou Exposé Méthodique et Critique de Tous les Genres Proposés jusqu’ici dans cet Ordre d'Insectes. Tome Quatrième Contenant les Familles des Buprestides, Throscides, Eucnémides, Élatérides, Cébrionides, Cérophytides, Rhipicérides, Dascyllides, Malacodermes, Clérides, Lyméxylones, Cupésides, Ptiniores, Bostrichides et Cissides 1-579

Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to Y. D. Li et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cantharidae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Mysteriomorphidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Throscidae

Subtaxa: Artematopodinae Bipogonia Carinibipogonia Electribiinae Forticatinius Notocupes undatabdominus Protartematopus Sinobrevipogon Tarsomegamerus Valdopogon

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Mexico (1 collection)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2)

• Cretaceous of China (2), Myanmar (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of China (1)

Total: 11 collections including 22 occurrences

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