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Superfamily Tenebrionoidea: Atlas of extinct beetle taxa

А.G. Kirejtshuk

 

Composition of family:

 

Mycetophagidae Leach, 1815 (Cretaceous period – Recent)

Archaeocrypticidae Kaszab, 1964 (Recent)

Pterogeniidae Crowson, 1953 (Recent)

Ciidae Leach in Samouelle, 1819 (Upper Eocene – Recent)

Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820 (Recent)

Melandryidae Leach, 1815 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856 (=Anaspididae Mulsant, 1856) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Mordellidae Latreille, 1802 (Upper Jurassic - Recent)

Ripiphoridae Gemminger, Harold, 1870 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Zopheridae Solier, 1834 (= Colydiidae Erichson, 1842; Monommatidae Blanchard, 1845) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Ulodidae Pascoe, 1869 (Recent)

Perimylopidae St.George, 1939 (Recent)

Chalcodryidae Watt, 1974 (Recent)

Trachelostenidae Lacordaire, 1859 (Recent)

Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 (=Alleculidae Laporte, 1840; Lagriidae Latreille, 1825) (Upper Jurassic - Recent)

Prostomidae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

Synchroidae Lacordaire, 1859 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

Oedemeridae Latreille, 1810 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

Stenotrachelidae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (=Cephaloidae LeConte, 1862) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845 (Lower Eocene - Recent)

Boridae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (Recent)

Trictenotomidae Blanchard, 1845 (Recent)

Pythidae Solier, 1834 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

Pyrochroidae Latreille, 1807 (=Agnathidae Lacordaire, 1859; Cononotidae LeConte, 1862; Pedilidae Lacordaire, 1859; Pilipalpidae Abdullah, 1964) (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

Salpingidae Leach, 1815 (=Inopeplidae Grouvelle, 1908; Othniidae LeConte, 1861) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (=Ischaliidae Blair, 1920) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

Aderidae Winkler, 1927 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

 

 

 

Literature:

 

(look a page also Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina (3 part))

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.

Crowson R.A. 1989. Relations of beetles to cycads. Intern. Congr. Coleopterol. Barcelona, Se4pt. 18-23, 1988. Abstr. Vol. Barcelona. P. 94.

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. 2000. On origin and early evolution of the supefamily Cucujoidea (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) Comments on the family Helotidae. The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette, 8 (1): 8-38.

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.