Family Glaresidae Prudhomme de Borre 1886 (enigmatic scarab beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Glaresidae

Alternative spelling: Glaresini

Full reference: A. Prudhomme de Borre. 1886. Catalogue des Trogides décrits jusqu’à ce jour, procédé d’un synopsis de leurs genres et d’une esquisse de leur distribution géographique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:54-82

Parent taxon: Scarabaeoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai and Huang 2018, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Nikolajev 2007

Sister taxa: Aliscarabaeus, Alloioscarabaeidae, Ateuchites, Belohinidae, Bolboceratidae, Ceafornotensis, Copris subterraneus, Cretaclopus, Cretonitis, Diphyllostomatidae, Geotrupidae, Geotrupoides, Glaphyridae, Gymnopleurus deperditus, Holcorobeini, Holcorobeus, Hongscarabaeus, Hybosoridae, Hybosorites, Juraclopus, Lucanidae, Mahengea, Mesaclopus, Mesoscarabaeus, Mongolrobeus, Ochodaeidae, Onthophagus urusheeri, Opiselleipon, Passalidae, Passalopalpidae, Pleocomidae, Prionocephale, Prophaenognatha, Scarabaeidae, Scelocopris, Septiventeridae, Trogidae

Subtaxa: Aphodiites Cretoglaresis Glaresis Lithoglaresis

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Type: Glaresis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (4)

• Jurassic of Switzerland (1)

Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences

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