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Tenebrionoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	70546	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=70546

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionoidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea	Latreille 1802

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tenebrionoidea	superfamily	belongs to Cucujiformia	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Tenebrionoidea	superfamily	belongs to Cucujiformia	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

796

Extant Size (PBDB)

393 (49%)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 197 Ma
Early Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aderidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Anthicidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ant Like Flower Beetle	31	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Apotomouridae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)		2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Archeocrypticidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Boridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chalcodryidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ciidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Minute Tree-fungus Beetle	2	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Liaoximordellidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Melandryidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	False Darkling Beetle	23	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Meloidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Blister Beetle	21	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Mordellidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Tumbling Flower Beetle	49	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Mycetophagidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hairy Fungus Beetle	8	201 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Mycteridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Palm And Flower Beetle	6	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Oedemeridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	False Blister Beetle	6	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Perimylopidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Prostomidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Jugular-horned Beetle	4	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pterogeniidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Pyrochroidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pythidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Rhipiphoridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Wedge Shaped Beetle			0 Ma Extant
Ripiphoridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Wedge Shaped Beetle	33	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Salpingidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Narrow-waisted Bark Beetle	8	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Scraptiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	False Flower Beetle	20	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Stenotrachelidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Synchroidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Tenebrionidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Darkling Beetle	225	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Tetratomidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Polypore Fungus Beetle	7	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Trachelostenidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Trictenotomidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ulodidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Zopheridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ironclad Beetle	31	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cossyphodinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ischaliidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	False Fire-colored Beetle	3	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Stoliinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Archaeoripiphorus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Glypta ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Neopolypria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1802	Tenebrionoidea Latreille p. 165
1917	Eurygenius wickhami Cockerell p. 324 fig. 2
1995	Tenebrionoidea Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 786
2000	Eurygenius wickhami Ross and York p. 12
2002	Fushunicucujus Hong p. 137
2002	Fushunicucujus maculatus Hong p. 139 figs. 2.6.106-114
2004	Macrosiagon ebboi Perrichot et al. p. 579 fig. 6
2011	Tenebrionoidea Bouchard et al. p. 64
2015	Tenebrionoidea Robertson et al.

References

Latreille P. A. , Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième, 1-467

Cockerell T. D. A. (1917) Insects in Burmese amber, Annals of the Entomological Society of America 10, 323-329

Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006

Ross A. J., York P. V. (2000) A list of type and figured specimens of insects and other inclusions in Burmese amber, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 56, 11-20

Hong Y. C. (2002) , Amber Insects of China, 1-653

Perrichot V., Nel A., et al (2004) Two new wedge-shaped beetles in Albo-Cenomanian ambers of France (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae), European Journal of Entomology 101, 577-581

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Robertson J. A., Ślipiński A., et al (2015) Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia), Systematic Entomology 40, 745-778

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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