Subfamily Melyrinae Leach 1815 (soft-winged flower beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Melyridae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Gimmel et al. 2019, Kolibáč and Huang 2019, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Tihelka et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Dasytinae, Malachiinae, Troglocollops
Subtaxa: Sinomelyris
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection) (Jurassic of China)