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Hereinbefore Mycterus molassicus Heer, 1847 from Miocene Eningena, Neopolypria nigra Abdullah, 1964 and an indication of the family in the publication Kubitz (2000) from Baltic amber require confirmation.
March 2010.
Composition of subfamily and genus, registered in the fossil record:
Subfamily Mycterinae Blanchard, 1845 (Upper Miocene - Recent)
Mycterus Clairville et Schellenberg, 1798 (Upper Miocene - Recent)
Subfamily Euryphinae J. Thomson, 1860 (Lower Eocene - Recent)
+ Bertinotus Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2009(Lower Eocene)
Subfamily Hemipeplinae Lacordaire, 1854 (Upper Eocene - Recent)
Neopolyria Abdullah, 1964 (Upper Eocene - Recent)
Literature:
(Look also at the page 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. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.
Kirejtshuk A.G. & Nel A. 2009. New genera and species of Cucujiformia (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) from lowermost Eocene French amber. Denisia, 26 (zugleich Katalogue der oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Neue Serie, 86): 103-118.
Kubisz D. 2000. Fossil beetles (Coleoptera) from Baltic amber in the collection of the Museum of Natural History of ISEA in Krakow. Polsk. Pism. Entomol. V. 69. N 2. P. 225-230.
Larsson S.G. 1978. Baltic Amber. A palaeobiological Study. Entomonograph 1: 1-192.
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.