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A.G.Kirejtshuk, January 2009.
Composition of genera, including fossils:
Micromalthus LeConte, 1878 (Lower Eocene - Recent)
+Crethomalthus Kirejtshuk et Azar, 2008 (Lower Cretaceous)
Literature:
(look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Cupedina, Carabina и Scarabaeina (1 part) )
Перковский Е.E. 2007. О находке имаго Micromalthus (Coleoptera: Micromalthidae) в доминиканском янтаре. Палеонтологический журнал N 6: 36-38.
Пономаренко А.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1980. Надотряд Scarabaeidea. Жесткокрылообразные. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 175) Москва, Наука. 75-84.
Crowson R.A. 1975. The evolutionary history of Coleoptera as documented by fossil and comparative evidence. Atti Congr. naz. Ital. Entomol. 10th. Sassari 1974. 47-90.
Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.
Kirejtshuk A.G. 1991/1992. Evolution of mode of life as the basis for division of the beetles into groups of high taxonomic rank. In: M. Zunino, X. Belles, M. Blas, eds. Advances in Coleopterology. Baecelona, Ass. Europ. Coleopt. 249-261.
Kirejtshuk A.G., Azar D. 2008. New taxa of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2: 15-46.
Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2 Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.