Melandryidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily

Tenebrionoidea The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles. It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors. Taxonomy Tenebrionoidea contains the following families: * Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles) * ...

. Members of the family are found worldwide, with around 420 species in 60 genera. Larvae and adults are generally associated with rotting wood and wood-decomposing fungi.

Genera

These 44 genera belong to the family Melandryidae: * '' Abdera'' Stephens, 1832^{g b} * '' Abderina'' Seidlitz, 1898^g * '' Amblyctis'' Leconte, 1879^{g b} * ''

Anisoxya ''Anisoxya'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Melandryidae Melandryidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. Members of the family are found worldwide, with around 420 species in 60 genera. Larvae and adults ...

'' Mulsant, 1856^{g b} * '' Archaeoxylita'' Nikitskij, 1977^g * '' Archaeserropalpus'' Nikitsky, 2002^g * '' Argyrabdera'' Sahlberg, 1913^g * '' Cicindelopsis'' Cockerell, 1920^g * ''

Conopalpus ''Conopalpus'' is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are at least two described species in ''Conopalpus''. Species These two species belong to the genus ''Conopalpus'': * ''Conopalpus brevicollis'' Kraatz, 1855 ...

'' Gyllenhal, 1810^g * '' Cuphosis'' Champion, 1889^g * '' Dicraeomorpha''^g * '' Dircaea'' Fabricius, 1798^{g b} * '' Dircaeomorpha'' Fairmaire, 1896^g * '' Dolotarsus'' Jacquelin du Val, 1863^{g b} * '' Electroabdera'' Alekseev, 2014^g * '' Emmesa'' Newman, 1838^{i c g b} * '' Enchodes'' Leconte, 1866^{g b} * '' Eucinetomorphus'' Perris, 1875^g * '' Hypulus'' Paykull, 1798^{g b} * '' Lederia'' Reitter, 1880^{g b} * '' Marolia'' Mulsant, 1856^g * '' Mecorchesia'' Broun, 1914^g * '' Melandrya'' Fabricius, 1801^{g b} * '' Microscapha'' LeConte, 1866^{g b} * '' Microtonus'' LeConte, 1862^{g b} * '' Neogonus'' Hampe, 1873^g * '' Nipponomarolia'' Miyatake, 1982^g * '' Orchesia'' Latreille, 1807^{g b} * '' Osphya'' Illiger, 1807^{g b} * '' Phloeotrinus'' Nikitsky, 1989^g * ''

Phloiotrya ''Phloiotrya'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Melandryidae Melandryidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. Members of the family are found worldwide, with around 420 species in 60 genera. Larvae and adul ...

'' Stephens, 1832^{g b} * '' Phryganophilus'' C.R.Sahlberg, 1834^{g b} * ''

Prothalpia ''Prothalpia'' is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are at least four described species in ''Prothalpia''. Species These four species belong to the genus ''Prothalpia'': * ''Prothalpia holmbergi'' (Mannerheim, 1 ...

'' LeConte, 1862^{i c g b} * '' Pseudocuphosis'' Nikitsky, 2002^g * '' Pseudohallomenus'' Nikitskii, 1977^g * '' Rushia'' Forel, 1893^{g b} * '' Scotochroa'' Leconte, 1874^{g b} * '' Scotochroides'' Mank, 1939^g * '' Serropalpus'' Hellenius, 1786^{g b} * '' Spilotus'' LeConte, 1862^{g b} * '' Symphora'' Leconte, 1866^{g b} * '' Xylita'' Paykull, 1798^{g b} * '' Zilora'' Mulsant, 1856^{g b} * '' Zilorini''^g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net The oldest fossils of the family are known from mid-

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

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Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 M ...

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

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Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

of Myanmar.

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