Pyrochroidae Latreille, 1806

Bukejs, Andris, Alekseev, Vitalii I. & Pollock, Darren A., 2019, Waidelotinae, a new subfamily of Pyrochroidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula and the interpretation of Sambian amber stratigraphy, age and location, Zootaxa 4664 (2), pp. 261-273 : 262

Family Pyrochroidae Latreille, 1806

Note. Young & Pollock (2010) provided a detailed description of Pyrochroidae . The specimen considered here was assigned to Pyrochroidae based on a combination of the following morphological characters (though some of these features are found in other families/subfamilies of Tenebrionoidea also): (1) tarsi heteromerous; (2) prothoracic coxae conical and projecting; (3) prothoracic coxal cavities open posteriorly; (4) compound eyes prominent, emarginate and glabrous; (5) antennal insertions exposed; (6) antennae long, filiform, inserted at side of frons in emarginations of the eyes; (7) maxillary palpi 4-segmented with apical palpomere cultriform; (8) prothorax narrower than basal width of elytra; (9) prothoracic trochantins slightly exposed; (10) penultimate tarsomeres lobed; (11) pretarsal claws appendiculate; (12) head prognathous; and (13) pronotum without antebasal sulci.